Arthur Nicholson
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 led to the fall of Singapore to the Japanese and the end of British supremacy in the Far East.
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 led to the fall of Singapore to the Japanese and the end of British supremacy in the Far East.
This is an excellent account of the events leading up to the sinking of the Prince of Wales and Repulse. It does not attempt to re-write history but uses all the known facts and presents them in a well ordered fashion. It lays the folly of sending two capital ships, without support or air cover, in an attempt to impress the Japanese, at Churchill's door. It is a well written account and is on a par with 'Battleship' written by Middlebrook. It is a far superior work than 'Scapegoat' the recently-written revisionist book. Hostages to Fortune lays no blame for the loss of these two fine ships on Admiral Phillips. He was a man in a difficult position and, under-resourced as he was, sailed to do battle. He had little choice!
| Coming Soon | No |
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| Author(s) | Arthur Nicholson |
