Dead Reckoning: The Dunedin Star Disaster - Hardcover

Dawson, Jeff

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297848798 ISBN 13: 9780297848790

Publisher: Orion Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

In November 1942, the Dunedin Star, a ship of Britain’s Blue Star Line, was bound for the Middle East, her consignment of munitions for the 8th Army supplemented by 21 civilians escaping the Blitz. Three weeks into her voyage, her hull mysteriously holed, the Dunedin Star ran aground off Namibia’s infamous Skeleton Coast the most violent and desolate shore on earth. Sixty-three passengers were to defy unfathomable odds to reach land but their struggle for survival had only just begun.

About this title

About the Author:

Jeff Dawson is the author of Tarantino: Inside Story, and Back Home: England and the 1970 World Cup. A former US editor of Empire magazine he writes on film and travel for The Sunday Times.

Review:

"Based on interviews with survivors, eyewitness testimony and personal journals, Dawson skilfully reconstructs the doomed voyage, the terror of the wilderness and the painstaking rescue missions." BELFAST TELEGRAPH "Dawson draws from the written testimony of those involved and speaks to the only two survivors still alive to deliver a lively, pacy read." GOOD BOOK GUIDE

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0297848798
• ISBN 13: 9780297848790
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320