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Bitter victory : the death of HMAS Sydney

What did happen just off the Western Australian coast on 19 November, 1941? Certainly a tragedy: 600 men were killed when the HMAS Sydney was torpedoed by a German cruiser; but why? Olsen sets out to answer these questions, and in doing so, pulls apart the accepted theories about the causes of Australia's greatest maritime disaster

Print Book, English, 2000
University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, W.A., 2000