Blockade Busters

by Ralph Barker

Book Overview

Recounts one of the greatest sea stories of World War II. It is the story of how George Binney, a 39 year-old civilian working in neutral Sweden when Norway was overrun by the Germans in 1940, set about running vital cargoes of Swedish ball-bearings and special steels to Britain through the blockaded Skagerrak, where German air strength was dominant and where the Royal Navy dare not trespass. Despite Admiralty gloom and in the face of political objections...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844152820
• ISBN13: 9781844152827
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"