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Mike Rossiter Ark Royal: Sailing Into Glory
Bantam Press 2006 0593055519 / 9780593055519 Hardcover New
"Brand New, Hardcover with dust jacket, clean, tight, unmarked, 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, sinking the German battleship, the Bismarck, after she had ravaged the British fleet in the Atlantic. 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 rested, one k... ID: mon0000008549"
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