- 144 pages
- English
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About this book
On 14 October 1939, HMS Royal Oak, one of the British navy's top battleships, was destroyed at the Royal Navy's main anchorage at Scapa Flow, Orkney. The audacious attack, by a German U-boat, was the first major blow against Britain of the Second World War. Over 800 lives were lost, including sailors as young as 14.This book is a revealing account of the tragedy. Told through declassified photographs and naval records, as well as statements from survivors, it is a dramatic and moving reassessment of one of the most shattering events in British naval history.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the 2022 edition
- Preface to the first edition
- HMS Royal Oak – profile plan
- Introduction
- HMS Royal Oak Inquiry
- 1. The Lost Years
- 2. The Life of Ralph Lennox Woodrow-Clark RN
- 3. The Sinking of the Royal Oak
- 4. Kapitänleutnant Günther Prien and the U-Bootwaffe
- 5. The Roll Call of the Royal Oak
- 6. Rescue
- 7. Funeral of the Royal Oak Crew
- 8. Boys on HMS Royal Oak
- 9. Survivors of HMS Royal Oak
- 10. Scapa Flow and the Churchill Barriers
- 11. ‘Spies’ at Scapa Flow
- 12. World War II British Battleships
- HMS Royal Oak timeline
- Epitaph
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography