Ark Royal: The Life, Death And Rediscovery Of The Legendary Second World War Aircraft Carrier

Mike Rossiter

ISBN 10: 0593055519 / ISBN 13: 9780593055519

Verlag: Bantam Press 03/05/2006, 2006

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Ark Royal: The Life, Death And Rediscovery Of The Legendary Second World War Aircraft Carrier
• Verlag: Bantam Press 03/05/2006
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0593055519
• ISBN-13: 9780593055519
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

In June 1941, the Ark Royal won one of Britain's most famous naval victories. The German destroyer, Bismarck, had been ravaging the British fleet in the Atlantic. Sailing through a ferocious storm, the Ark Royal tracked the Bismarck. A dozen swordfish bombers took off from her deck and pounded shell after shell into the German battleship, sending her to the ocean floor. It was a signal victory that resonated around the world. Hitler, furious at the loss of the German fleet's flagship, demanded that the Ark Royal be destroyed at whatever cost. HMS Ark Royal is one of the Royal Navy's most iconic ships. When she was launched in 1938, she was one of the most sophisticated weapons at the disposal of British military command. The aircraft carrier was the latest, and soon to be one of the most feared, developments in naval warfare. In her first two years of operation, the Ark Royal survived countless attacks, and was considered one of the luckiest ships in the Navy. But her air of invincibility was to prove wishful thinking. Within one month of sinking the Bismarck, the Ark Royal too was destroyed while sailing off the coast of Gibraltar. And there she has rested, one kilometer below the surface of the Mediterranean, until her wreck was discovered by Mike Rossiter in 2004. In gripping detail, and using the testimony of survivors of the sinking and men who lived, flew and fought on the Ark Royal, Mike Rossiter tells the remarkable story of the life and legend of this most iconic of ships. Also, and for the first time, he reveals the story of the quest to discover the wreck of this naval legend.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mike Rossiter is an independent documentary film maker, whose work has been nominated for BAFTA and EMMY awards. In 2001 he filmed the search and recovery of the body of Donald Campbell and his record-breaking jet boat, Bluebird, from Coniston Water. In 2004 he filmed the discovery of the wreck of the Ark Royal. He lives in North London.