Hostages of Fortune: Winston Churchill and the Loss of the Prince of Wales and Repulse by Henry Leach, Arthur Nicholson

Hostages of Fortune: Winston Churchill and the Loss of the Prince of Wales and Repulse

Henry Leach, Arthur Nicholson

256 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

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When the British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser HMS Repulse were sunk by Japanese bombers on 10 December 1941, Winston Churchill is on record as having said 'In all the war I never received a more direct shock'. Their loss l...

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