Author: Hore, Peter
Title: Sydney, cipher and search: solving the last great naval mystery of the Second World War
Published: Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2009
Description: 314 p. :ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Call Number: D775.5 S8 H67 2009
Bibliography: p. 299-303
Summary: In November 1941 the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney, with a crew of 645, disappeared off the coast western Australia. Shipwrecked German sailors told an incredible tale of how their ship, had sunk the pride of the Australian navy. Almost at once conspiracy theories sprang up to explain the tragic loss of the ship and so many lives. Based on the author's decryption and interpretation of German Coded accounts, interviews with survivors from the raider, Kormoran, and other research, this book tells - insofar as it can ever be known - what really happened in the desperate fight to the death between the two ships, whose wrecks were finally located in March 2008
Subject(s):
- Sydney (Cruiser)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, Australian
Review(s):
- Higham, Robin. "Sydney, Cipher and Search: Solving the Last Great Naval Mystery of the Second World War." Journal of Military History 74, no. 1 (January 2010): 287
