| Entry Text: | BEASANT, John. Stalin's Silver. [vi], 216p., illus., index. London: Bloomsbury, 1995; New York: St Martin's Press, 1999. ISBN: 0747523444.
A wartime mystery. The s.s. John Barry was sunk off Oman by U 859 in 1944 while carrying huge quantities of unacknowledged silver. Soon after U 859 was sunk in the Malacca Strait and it is claimed may have been carrying uranium to Japan. An interesting tale of sinkings, salvage, suspicion, and skulduggery. |
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