| Entry Text: | PENROSE, Barrie. Stalin’s Gold: The Story of HMS Edinburgh and its Treasure. xv, 223p., illus., index. London: Granada; Boston: Little Brown, 1982. ISBN: 0246117788.
Edinburgh was sunk in action in the Barents Sea in 1942, while carrying a fortune in gold from Russia. The first quarter of the book describes the career and end of the cruiser, the rest the daring and difficult recovery of the gold in 1981. |
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