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ARK ROYAL by ROSSITER

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World War /Two/Aviation/ RAF/Military/interest

NAVAL/AVIATION/PLANES/AIRCRAFT/MILITARY AIRCRAFT /WORLD WAR  ONE & TWO/INTEREST

 

 

Ark Royal

by

ROSSITER

PUBLISHED ; BANTAM

1st EDITION 2006

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 the British Admiralty. 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. In June 1941 the Ark Royal won one of Britain’s most famous naval victories. The German battleship Bismarck had ravaged the British fleet in the Atlantic. Sailing through a ferocious storm, the Ark Royal intercepted the Bismarck. A dozen Swordfish torpedo-bombers took off from her deck and, facing a barrage of shell fire, launched torpedo after torpedo at the giant ship, which was crippled and sank the next day. It was a signal victory that resonated around the world. When the Ark Royal returned to the Mediterranean, where her aircraft continued to defy the Luftwaffe, Hitler was determined to sink her. Within weeks, the Ark Royal was destroyed while sailing off the coast of Gibraltar, torpedoed by a German U-boat. There she has rested, one kilometre 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 gives a remarkable account of this most famous of ships. He also reveals for the first time the true story of the quest to discover the wreck of this naval legend. 

ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS   

CONDITION V GOOD + ,WITH DUST JACKET 

BINDING TIGHT .CLEAN INTERIOR

DUST JACKET COVERED IN REMOVABLE MYLAR COVER

 

 

 

 

 

 

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