| Entry Text: | BARTY-KING, Hugh. Girdle Round the Earth: The Story of Cable & Wireless and Its Predecessors to Mark the Group's Jubilee, 1929–1979. xvi, 413p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Heinemann, 1979. ISBN: 0434049026. A very detailed history from the laying of the first cross-Channel cable in 1851. Two chapters are devoted to the company and its cable-laying ships in WWII. |
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