Destroyer Down
An Account of HM Destroyer Losses, 1939–1945
Arthur Evans
- The
- author
- of
- Beneath
- the
- Waves
- provides
- a
- thorough
- history
- of
- the
- sinkings
- of
- Britain’s
- destroyer
- warships
- during
- World
- War
- II.His
- Majesty’s
- destroyers
- had
- a
- long
- and
- costly
- war.
- Some
- eight
- thousand
- destroyer
- men
- did
- not
- survive.
- At
- the
- height
- of
- the
- war
- the
- Royal
- navy
- was
- commissioning
- four
- new
- vessels
- a
- month,
- which
- was
- only
- sufficient
- to
- replace
- those
- which
- had
- been
- sunk
- or
- severely
- damaged.
- This
- outstanding
- book
- contains
- the
- details
- of
- the
- majority
- of
- the
- sinkings
- that
- occurred
- throughout
- World
- War
- II
- and
- includes
- many
- firsthand
- accounts
- from
- the
- officers
- and
- crew involved.
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