Final Voyage - The World's Worst Maritime Disasters

Informationen zum Autor By Jonathan Eyers Klappentext Final Voyage: The World's Worst Maritime Disasters tells the stories of the deadliest and most often forgotten maritime tragedies in the history of seafaring. Zusammenfassung Final Voyage: The World's Worst Maritime Disasters tells the stories of the deadliest and most often forgotten maritime tragedies in the history of seafaring. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction In the Hands of God Catastrophe at sea during the Age of Sail America's Titanic Triumph and tragedy aboard the Sultana The Halifax Explosion The loss of a ship! the devastation of a city War at Sea From the Spanish Armada to the Bismarck Britain's Darkest Hour The loss of the Lancastria and why Churchill covered it up The Age of Total Loss Tragedy without triumph during the Second World War Ten Thousand Dead The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff Worse than Titanic Maritime disasters since the Second World War

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Eyers, Eyers Jonathan, Jonathan Eyers
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.08.2013
• EAN: 9781442221673
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-2167-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, maritime history