| Entry Text: | FENBY, Jonathan. The Sinking of the Lancastria: Britain's Greatest Maritime Disaster and Churchill's Cover-up. xiii, 269p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Simon & Schuster, 2005. ISBN: 0743259300.
More than 3000 died when their troopship was bombed and sunk in the Loire estuary during the evacuation of France. Recreates the drama of a terrible event, much of it from survivors' tales. |
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