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SECRETS OF THE CONQUEROR

BY

STUART PREBBLE

PUBLISHED; FABER & FABER

FIRST EDITION 2012

HARD BACKED

  HMS CONQUEROR, five thousand tons of  nuclear—powered menace, is Britain’s most famous  submarine. It is the only NATO sub since World War II  to have fired its torpedoes in anger, and the only  one to have sunk an enemy ship. Conqueror’s  sinking of the Argentine cruiser Belgano made  inevitable an all—out War over the future of the  Falkland Islands, and sparked off one of the most  controversial episodes of twentieth—century  politics. Did the Prime Minister Mrs Thatcher  deliberately sink the ship, killing 323 men, simply  to scupper peace proposals which would have  averted an all-out War in the South Atlantic?  The political controversy was fuelled by a war  diary kept by a naval officer on board HMS Conqueror  and, as a young TV producer in the 1980s, Stuart  Prebble scooped the world by locating the diary’s  author and getting his story on the record.  But in the course of uncovering his Falklands  story, Stuart Prebble also learned a military secret  that could have come straight out of a Cold War  thriller. It involved the top secret activities of  the Conqueror the months before and after the  Falklands War, and was a story with international  repercussions which Went far wider than the  sinking of the Belgrano.  Prebble has waited for thirty years to tell his story,  and in he finally does so.  The revelation of what these brave submariners  did before and after the war in the Falklands is one  of the great British military success stories, which  has been buried under layers official secrecy for  three decades.         

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