Item #195248 DEATH OF A PHANTOM RAIDER. The Gamble That Triumphed and Failed. Atlantic 1942-3. Charles GIBSON.

DEATH OF A PHANTOM RAIDER. The Gamble That Triumphed and Failed. Atlantic 1942-3.

London, Published by Robert Hale, 1987. 8vo. pp.240 with black & white photographs, line drawings and a map. Blue cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. Very good copy. Item #195248
ISBN: 9780709029472

The story of the British freighter Speybank, captured in January 1941 in the Indian Ocean by the German ship Atlantis taken to France converted to a minelayer and renamed Doggerbank.

In 1943 ,the ship was accidently sunk by the U43. 365 crew and prisioners were killed with only one survivor.

Price: $30.00

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