YANGTZE SHOWDOWN: CHINA AND THE ORDEAL OF HMS AMETHYST
Written by Brian Izzard
Published by Seaforth Publishing
in 2015
ISBN: 9781848322240
YANGTZE SHOWDOWN: CHINA AND THE ORDEAL OF HMS AMETHYST
Written by Brian Izzard.
Stock no. 1824876
1st.
2015.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
The dramatic story of the Communist Chinese attack on the British frigate HMS Amethyst in the Yangtze in 1949. Navy blue boards, yellow title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 9781848322240. Boards marked, a few tiny knocks to lower edges of boards. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.
Front cover
Contents
- Dedication
- Author's Note
- 1 Under Fire
- 2 The Fatal Decision
- 3 Machine-gunned in the Water
- 4 Consort's Dash
- 5 The Navy's 'Charge of the Light Brigade'
- 6 The RAF Flies in
- 7 Not Kerans!
- 8 A Diplomatic Challenge
- 9 Trapped
- 10 War of Words
- 11 The Politicians Fight It Out
- 12 The Navy Sails Away
- 13 A Chinese Puzzle
- 14 The Threat to Hong Kong
- 15 Deadlock
- 16 The Colonel's Big Mistake
- 17 Thoughts of Escape
- 18 Typhoon Gloria
- 19 We're Going Tonight
- 20 Salute to Amethyst
- 21 The Cover Up
- 22 Lieutenant Weston's Escape
- 23 The Nervous Colony
- 24 Keran's Drunken Escapade
- 25 Welcome Home - 'Up to Standard'
- 26 The Case Against China
- 27 Mao's Trap
- 28 The Tragic Sam Leo
- 29 Looking Back
- 30 The Fading Hero
- Appendices
- Notes and Sources
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index