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Author: Fenby, Jonathan Publisher: Carroll & Graf Edition: American Edition . Size: 8vo (269 pages, 22 illustrations) Binding: Picture wraps Place published: New York Year: 2005 The Lancastria, a former Cunard liner turned troopship, was sunk by a German warplane on June 17, 1940 with more than 3,500 lives lost. Churchill ordered the press not to report the tragedy, the greatest in British maritime history. Here is a meticulous, if somewhat sensationalistic, reconstruction of the event. New, in dust jacket.
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