- Gebundene Ausgabe: 206 Seiten
- Verlag: Pen & Sword Books (Ncr); Auflage: illustrated edition (30. September 2004)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1844151220
- ISBN-13: 978-1844151226
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,6 x 15,6 x 2,2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.170.762 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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On 22 May 1941 the cruiser HMS Gloucester (The Fighting 'G') was sunk by aircraft of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Crete. Of her crew of 807 men, only 83 survived to come home at the end of the War in 1945. It is unknown how many men went down with the ship and how many died in the sea clinging to rafts and flotsam during the many hours before the survivors were finally rescued by boats searching for German soldiers who were victims of a previous British naval attack. The fact that Allied destroyers were in the proximity and were not sent to the rescue was a result of poor naval communications and indecision by the local fleet commanders. Gloucester had been low on anti-aircraft ammunition and her crew exhausted before being dispatched from the main fleet to search for the stricken destroyer HMS Greyhound. With only HMS Fiji as company, she came under attack from German bombers and when Gloucester's ammunition was finally exhausted she suffered several direct hits and was set ablaze from stem to stem and left out of control. This book looks at the ship's history and operational successes from her launching in 1937 to her final demise. It includes many first-hand accounts from the surviving crew and the author's painstaking research has revealed the awful truth about one of the Royal Navy's greatest disasters during World War Two.
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On 22 May 1941 the cruiser HMS Gloucester (The Fighting 'G') was sunk by aircraft of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Crete. Of her crew of 807 men, only 83 survived to come home at the end of the War in 1945. It is unknown how many men went down with the ship and how many died in the sea clinging to rafts and flotsam during the many hours before the survivors were finally rescued by boats searching for German soldiers who were victims of a previous British naval attack. The fact that Allied destroyers were in the proximity and were not sent to the rescue was a result of poor naval communications and indecision by the local fleet commanders. Gloucester had been low on anti-aircraft ammunition and her crew exhausted before being dispatched from the main fleet to search for the stricken destroyer HMS Greyhound. With only HMS Fiji as company, she came under attack from German bombers and when Gloucester's ammunition was finally exhausted she suffered several direct hits and was set ablaze from stem to stem and left out of control. This book looks at the ship's history and operational successes from her launching in 1937 to her final demise.It includes many first-hand accounts from the surviving crew and the author's painstaking research has revealed the awful truth about one of the Royal Navy's greatest disasters during World War Two.
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Who knows what thoughts dog a man's mind as he grows up in the knowledge that his father was killed when he was just 7 month's old. This author was denied such parenthood at that very age and grew up in the knowledge that his father was one of the 725 men who perished when HMS Gloucester was lost in 1941.
After careers in both the Royal Navy and the Police, Ken Otter then set out to research the story of the ship on which his father served and died. As someone who researches facts about ships and their final journeys for a living, I appreciate and understand the value of - and the difficulties associated with, painstaking research. In this instance, I congratulate this author on a job so very well done.
"HMS Gloucester - The Untold Story" is a complete account of this ship from her launch in 1937 right up to her loss in 1941 and should, in my own humble opinion, be accepted as the official history of this ship. That a valuable Cruiser - already low on anti-aircraft ammunition, should have been sent to the aid of a stricken Destroyer was a questionable decision in the first instance. The fact that no rescue or aid was then sent to that Cruiser once she was set ablaze from stem to stern - or even after she had sunk, just adds weight to the overall argument that those in command were not exercising their authority in a clear and concise manner. Military leaders from any of the three services may be forgiven for any personal faults in their overall makeup - but NOT for indecision!
Whilst I can understand how this particular book will have been a personal quest for the author, it is so well written and clearly so very well researched, I can only hope Mr Otter will now turn his attention to other, similar tragedies in order to provide us with further accounts where those stories still remain "untold."
NM
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The simple truth about a great disaster.
23. November 2004
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Who knows what thoughts dog a man's mind as he grows up in the knowledge that his father was killed when he was just 7 month's old. This author was denied such parenthood at that very age and grew up in the knowledge that his father was one of the 725 men who perished when HMS Gloucester was lost in 1941.
After careers in both the Royal Navy and the Police, Ken Otter then set out to research the story of the ship on which his father served and died. As someone who researches facts about ships and their final journeys for a living, I appreciate and understand the value of - and the difficulties associated with, painstaking research. In this instance, I congratulate this author on a job so very well done.
"HMS Gloucester - The Untold Story" is a complete account of this ship from her launch in 1937 right up to her loss in 1941 and should, in my own humble opinion, be accepted as the official history of this ship. That a valuable Cruiser - already low on anti-aircraft ammunition, should have been sent to the aid of a stricken Destroyer was a questionable decision in the first instance. The fact that no rescue or aid was then sent to that Cruiser once she was set ablaze from stem to stern - or even after she had sunk, just adds weight to the overall argument that those in command were not exercising their authority in a clear and concise manner. Military leaders from any of the three services may be forgiven for any personal faults in their overall makeup - but NOT for indecision!
Whilst I can understand how this particular book will have been a personal quest for the author, it is so well written and clearly so very well researched, I can only hope Mr Otter will now turn his attention to other, similar tragedies in order to provide us with further accounts where those stories still remain "untold."
NM
After careers in both the Royal Navy and the Police, Ken Otter then set out to research the story of the ship on which his father served and died. As someone who researches facts about ships and their final journeys for a living, I appreciate and understand the value of - and the difficulties associated with, painstaking research. In this instance, I congratulate this author on a job so very well done.
"HMS Gloucester - The Untold Story" is a complete account of this ship from her launch in 1937 right up to her loss in 1941 and should, in my own humble opinion, be accepted as the official history of this ship. That a valuable Cruiser - already low on anti-aircraft ammunition, should have been sent to the aid of a stricken Destroyer was a questionable decision in the first instance. The fact that no rescue or aid was then sent to that Cruiser once she was set ablaze from stem to stern - or even after she had sunk, just adds weight to the overall argument that those in command were not exercising their authority in a clear and concise manner. Military leaders from any of the three services may be forgiven for any personal faults in their overall makeup - but NOT for indecision!
Whilst I can understand how this particular book will have been a personal quest for the author, it is so well written and clearly so very well researched, I can only hope Mr Otter will now turn his attention to other, similar tragedies in order to provide us with further accounts where those stories still remain "untold."
NM
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