Carrier Glorious

Download or read book Carrier Glorious written by John Winton and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1999 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1940, after a disastrous campaign in Norway, HMS Glorious was sent to the Norwegian coast to assist in the evacuation of British, Polish and French troops. After several tense days, the ship was on her way home when she encountered the two German battle-cruisers, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. In a ferocious gun battle lasting over an hour Glorious and the two destroyers escorting her were all sunk. Drawing on Admiralty records and the testimony of those who served on Glorious, John Winton reveals the incredible human folly that led almost inexorably to this tragic end, against a background of one of the most disastrous campaigns of World War II for Britain and her allies.