Phoenix Squadron: HMS "Ark Royal", Britain's Last Topguns and the Untold Story of Their Most Dramatic Mission
Author(s): Rowland White
January 1972: the tiny outpost of British Honduras is threatened with imminent invasion by battle-hardened, US-trained Guatemalan paratroops. Britain's response must be immediate and decisive. But there is only one deterrent the government can offer: HMS Ark Royal, once the Navy's most powerful warship, now a white elephant on the verge of being scrapped. To save the small colony, she must launch a pair of Buccaneer fighter bombers on an unprecedented long-range mission. But first the old carrier must make a high-speed, 1,500 mile dash across the Atlantic towards the Gulf of Mexico. The odds of arriving in time are very slim indeed...Drawing on extensive first-hand accounts and previously unseen, classified documents, Rowland White has pieced together one of the most audacious and thrilling missions of post-war British military history.
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General Fields
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- : Transworld Publishers Ltd
- : Corgi Books
- : April 2010
- : books
Special Fields
- : Rowland White
- : Paperback
- : Paperback
- : 972.8205
- : 972.8205
- : 528
- : 528
- : Illustrations (some col.), maps, ports. (some col.)
- : Illustrations (some col.), maps, ports. (some col.)