Dead Reckoning by Jeff Dawson
November 9th, 1942. Amid the cloaking gloom of the Liverpool docks lay the Dunedin Star. A ship of the Blue Star Line, she was bound for the Middle East, her consignment of munitions for the 8th Army supplemented by twenty-one fare-paying civilians escaping the Blitz for the colonies, all forced to take the long haul round the Cape. As an unescorted merchantman sailing U-boat infested waters, Dunedin Star's passage was, at best, a risky undertaking. But her eventual fate was to defy all expectation. Three weeks into her voyage, her hull mysteriously holed, Dunedin Star ran aground off Namibia's infamous Skeleton Coast - five hundred miles of raging surf and burning desert, the most violent and desolate shore on earth. Sixty-three men, women and children were to defy mountainous waves and unfathomable odds to reach land ...but their struggle for survival had only just begun. From interviews with survivors, eyewitness testimony, historical resources and personal journals, Dawson skilfully reconstructs the Dunedin Star's doomed voyage, the terror of the wilderness and the painstaking rescue missions. From the grim waters of the North Atlantic to the blistering African wastes, he narrates a classic tale of pluck, set against the backdrop of World War II.
"Based on interviews with survivors, eyewitness testimony and personal journals, Dawson skilfully reconstructs the doomed voyage, the terror of the wilderness and the painstaking rescue missions" BELFAST TELEGRAPH "Dawson draws from the written testimony of those involved and speaks to the only two survivors still alive to deliver a lively, pacy read." GOOD BOOK GUIDE
Jeff Dawson is the author of Tarantino: Inside Story, and Back Home: England and the 1970 World Cup. A former US editor of Empire magazine he writes on film and travel for The Sunday Times.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780297848790 |
| ISBN 10 | 0297848798 |
| Title | Dead Reckoning |
| Author | Jeff Dawson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2005-05-12 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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