The Sinking of the Lancastria : Britain's Greatest Maritime Disaster and Churchill's Cover-Up

A Fortnight After The Evacuation At Dunkirk Some 150,000 British Troops Were Still Stuck In France. As The German Advance Thundered West These Allied Soldiers And Airmen Were Faced With A Mad Dash To The Coast In The Hope That A Troop-ship Awaited Them There. One Such Vessel Was The 'lancastria', A 16,000-ton Liner Pressed Into Service And Now Anchored Off The Port Of St-nazaire. On 17 June 1940, Ready To Head For Home, The Ship Was Bombed By The Luftwaffe. As She Sank, Between 3,500 And 4,000 Of Those On Board Lost Their Lives. Re-creating This Extraordinary Episode With Great Narrative Flair, Jonathan Fenby Shows Us Not Just The Human Stories Behind The Disaster But The Cover-up That Followed -- As Churchill Ordered A Blanket Ban On News Stories For The Sake Of The Country's Morale. Gripping And Moving, Lancastria Tells One Of The Great Forgotten Stories Of The Second World War. A superbly gripping re-creation of the greatest maritime disaster in British history: the bombing of the 'Lancastria' during the fall of France in 194