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Title: HMAS Sydney: Loss and controversy by T. R Frame ISBN: 0-340-58468-8 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Pub. Date: 1993 Format: Unknown Binding

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Summary: As close as we will ever be to knowing the truth
Comment: On 19 November 1941, the Australian light cruiser, HMAS Sydney, and the German raider, HSK Kormoran, were engaged in a short and savage naval gun battle in which both ships were lost. Not a single member of Sydney's crew survived to describe the engagement. Sydney, although superior in armament and engineering and able to sink Kormoran from the horizon without fear of being hit, closed to less than 1500 yards of the raider to conduct its interrogation. Why? Was it treachery, a war crime, the incompetence of Sydney's captain or a combination of all three? In this extarordinarily thorough book, Tom Frame conducts what must be regarded as the most exhaustive analysis ever of this engagement, an action which remains to this day one the greatest of all naval mysteries. It is a dispassionate account which seeks to focus on the facts rather than the controversies that have surrounded the action.