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The Canberra in the Falklands War - A Very Strange Way to go to War (Paperback)
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The Canberra in the Falklands War - A Very Strange Way to go to War (Paperback)
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This fascinating and insightful book tells the thrilling story of
the SS Canberra, the luxury passenger liner which was requesitioned
as a troop transport in the Falkands War. Vast and brilliant white,
P&O's flagship the SS Canberra was a final salute to a bygone
era of opulence even as she embarked on her maiden voyage, For a
decade she carried passengers between Britain and Australia, a
90-day voyage of pampering and decadence. But in March 1982,
Britain went to war to defend the Falkland Islands and the SS
Canberra found herself, surreally, requisitioned as a troop ship to
carry the Marines and Paratroops into battle. Against all odds she
surived, playing a vital role as a hospital ship, and at the end of
the war she arrived back in Southampton to a hero's welcome, where
she became fondly known as the Great White Whale. This is the
extraordinary and, as yet, untold story of how the crew of a luxury
ocean liner - waiters, cooks, nurses and cleaners - found
themselves suddenly thrust onto the front line. A Very Strange Way
to Go to War is a candid and captivating story, drawing from first
hand accounts and previously unpublished archives, of the heroic
courage of ordinary British men and women in the face of great
adversity, at the outpost of empire.
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