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Simon & Schuster London 1st UK edition 2005. Hard cover dust wrapper 269pp b&w plates. Small scrape with hole on rear dw, now protected. Else very good. . On 17 June 1940, thousands of British soldiers and airmen left behind in France after the Dunkirk evacuation died after their troopship, the Lancastria, was hit by a German dive-bomber. It was the deadliest maritime disaster in British history, and one of he worst the world has ever seen. But Churchill censored the news to keep up morale, and the Lancastria became Britain's great unknown wartime tragedy. Drawing on memories of survivors as well as extensive research, this describes the events of that fatal day and of the ensuing cover up.