Ebook: Secrets of the Conqueror
- Tags: Falkland Islands War 1982--Naval operations British, Submarine warfare, Submarine warfare--Great Britain--History--20th century, History, Great Britain. -- Royal Navy. -- Submarine Service, Submarine warfare -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, Falkland Islands War 1982 -- Naval operations British, Great Britain
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- City: Great Britain;Place of publication not identified
- Language: English
- epub
HMS Conqueror is Britain's most famous submarine. It is the only sub since World War Two to have sunk an enemy ship. Conqueror's sinking of the Argentine cruiser Belgrano made inevitable an all-out war over the future of the Falkland Islands, and sparked off one of the most controversial episodes of twentieth century politics.
The controversy was fuelled by a war-diary kept by an officer on board HMS Conqueror, and as a young TV producer in the 1980s Stuart Prebble scooped the world by locating the diary's author and getting his story on the record. But in the course of uncovering his Falklands story, Stuart Prebble also learned a military secret which could have come straight out of a Cold War thriller. It involved the Top Secret activities of the Conqueror in the months before and after the Falklands War.
Prebble has waited for thirty years to tell his story. It is a story of incredible courage and derring-do, of men...