Sydney, Cipher and Search: Solving the Last Great Naval Mystery of the Second World War

by Hore, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781591148371
• ISBN10: 1591148375
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-01
• Publisher: Naval Inst Pr

Summary

In November 1941 the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney, with a crew of 645, disappeared off the coast western Australia. Shipwrecked German sailors told an incredible tale of how their ship, had sunk the pride of the Australian navy. Almost at once conspiracy theories sprang up to explain the tragic loss of the ship and so many lives.

Author Biography

Captain Peter Hore is a former head of Defence Studies for Royal Navy and, among other appointments, is chairman of the research committee of the society for Nautical Research. As a naval historian, he has been researching the loss of HMAS Sydney since 1999. Since completing this book he has been appointed an expert witness to the Australian government's Commission of Inquiry into the loss of HMAS Sydney.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
Detmers' dictionary	p. 14
Dots but no dashes	p. 22
Stormy petrel	p. 31
Nemesis	p. 44
Ruse de guerre	p. 51
The intelligence plot	p. 63
The flight of the cormorant	p. 82
Eyewitness	p. 95
Fight to the finish	p. 106
Lucky Strike	p. 115
A neutral steamer	p. 124
Sunday in Sydney Harbour	p. 132
The green dog kennel	p. 143
Learning from the prisoners	p. 154
The cover-up	p. 166
Dr Habben's mind game	p. 177
Escape and evasion	p. 189
Decoding Detmers	p. 197
The black box	p. 212
The Golden Horseshoe	p. 224
Contrast and compare	p. 234
The mistakes of others	p. 246
What happened to Sydney?	p. 260
Sydney found	p. 271
Astronomical data	p. 279
Comparison of the different versions of Detmers' battle summary	p. 281
Notes	p. 288
Bibliography	p. 299
Index	p. 304
Captain Peter Hore	p. 313
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