Blood in the Sea: HMS Dunedin and the Enigma Code

Gill, Stuart

ISBN 10: 0297846655 / ISBN 13: 9780297846659

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003

About this Item

2003 1st edition. Firmly bound & seems unread. Both book & unclipped jacket are in excellent clean condition. No inscription or ownership markings. No tears or loss.

Seller Inventory # 033749

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blood in the Sea: HMS Dunedin and the Enigma Code
• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0297846655
• ISBN 13: 9780297846659
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Intelligence & Special Forces
  • World War II 1939-45

About this title

Synopsis

This harrowing tale of survival pays moving tribute to the courageous British sailors of World War II, and offers entrance into the ultra-secret world of British code-breaking. In November 1941, the British light cruiser HMS Dunedin was patrolling the shipping lanes of the central Atlantic, directed to its targets by British intelligence agents who had cracked the German “Enigma” code. On November 24, a torpedo from a German U-boat sent her crashing to the ocean floor, along with over 400 of her crew. For three days, 72 desperate survivors clung to the flotsam, fighting off swarming sharks and pounding waves until an American ship stumbled across the scene.

About the Author

Stuart Gill is a career diplomat now working on British/EU legislative issues in Brussels. His father, Bill Gill, still alive and well, was one of only 67 survivors from the sinking of the cruiser Dunedin in the South Atlantic, November 1941. That extraordinary episode was the inspiration for Stuart Gill's first book.