Title: HMAS Sydney – Fact, Fantasy and Fraud

Author: Winter, Barbara

Condition: Near Mint +

Edition: 1st Edition

Publication Date: 1984

ISBN: 0908175728

Cover: Hard Cover without Dust Jacket – 282 pages

Comments: In February 1941, HMAS Sydney, glamour ship of the Royal Australian Navy in World War II, returned from the Mediterranean to a tumultuous welcome in Australia.  The Sydney had crowned her service there with the Royal Navy by sinking the Italian ship Bartolomeo Colleoni, described as the fastest cruiser in the world.

Nine months later the Sydney had disappeared off the coast of Western Australia following an action against the German raider Kormoran.  Three hundred and eighteen men from the Kormoran were eventually rescued, but the Sydney’s entire complement of six hundred and forty five men were lost.