Hostages to Fortune by Arthur Nicholson
When the British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser HMS Repulse were sunk by Japanese bombers on 10 December 1941, Winston Churchill is on record as having said 'In all the war I never received a more direct shock'. Their loss led to the fall of Singapore to the Japanese and the end of British supremacy in the Far East.
Arthur Nicholson is a practicing lawyer and a graduate of the Georgetown University Foreign Service where he studied International politics and history. He has been interested in warships and naval history since childhood, and worked as a volunteer with historians and veterans at the National Museum of the Pacific War. Arthur lives in San Antonio, Texas, USA, This is his first book.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780750939485 |
| ISBN 10 | 0750939486 |
| Title | Hostages to Fortune |
| Author | Arthur Nicholson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The History Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2005-02-17 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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