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The Cruellest Night

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She was a refugee ship, a troop transport and a hospital ship. She was carrying 8,000 men, women and children away from the rampaging Russian army in an evacuation that has become known as the 'German Dunkirk'. And she was heading for the grimmest and most horrifying disaster in naval history.

Everyone has heard of the Titanic and the Lusitania - when sea disasters are discussed those are the first names that come to mind. No one ever speaks of the Wilhelm Gustloff. She is the ship no one has heard of, as though she never existed at all. Yet the Wilhelm Gustloff took part in one of the most bizarre operations of the Second World War, and almost 7,000 people - nearly five times as many as went down on the Titanic - perished in her doomed final voyage.

Language: English

Pages: 223

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 1980

The Cruellest Night

0/5 ( ratings)

She was a refugee ship, a troop transport and a hospital ship. She was carrying 8,000 men, women and children away from the rampaging Russian army in an evacuation that has become known as the 'German Dunkirk'. And she was heading for the grimmest and most horrifying disaster in naval history.

Everyone has heard of the Titanic and the Lusitania - when sea disasters are discussed those are the first names that come to mind. No one ever speaks of the Wilhelm Gustloff. She is the ship no one has heard of, as though she never existed at all. Yet the Wilhelm Gustloff took part in one of the most bizarre operations of the Second World War, and almost 7,000 people - nearly five times as many as went down on the Titanic - perished in her doomed final voyage.

Language: English

Pages: 223

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 1980

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