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Sydney Cipher and Search

In November 1941 the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney, with a crew of 645, disappeared off the coast of Western Australia. Shipwrecked German sailors told a tale of how their ship, a lightly armoured merchant raider, had sunk the pride of the Australian navy. What really happened in the desperate fight to the death between the two ships?

  • Author: Peter Hore
  • Title: Sydney Cipher and Search: Solving the Last Great Naval Mystery of the Second World War
  • First Published by: Seafarer Books
  • First Published Format: PB
  • First Published Date: 15 April 2009
  • ISBN-10: 1906266085
  • ISBN-13: 9781906266080

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