Arctic Rescue: A Memoir of the Tragic Sinking of HMS Glorious - Memoirs from World War Two - Ronald Healiss - Books - Sapere Books - 9781800550070 - September 14, 2020
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Arctic Rescue: A Memoir of the Tragic Sinking of HMS Glorious - Memoirs from World War Two

Ronald Healiss

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Arctic Rescue: A Memoir of the Tragic Sinking of HMS Glorious - Memoirs from World War Two

A moving World War II memoir that uncovers a forgotten naval catastrophe. Ideal for readers of Evan Mawdsley, Max Hastings and Iain Ballantyne.

On the 8th June 1940, the Nazi battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau opened their guns on the aircraft-carrier HMS Glorious.

Within minutes the Glorious was taking on water and the order was given to abandon ship.

Hundreds of men leapt into the icy waters of the Norwegian Sea. They hoped and prayed that nearby ships would have heard their distress signal and send help.

Yet, they did not come. Men were left to tread water, hold onto small inflatables or clamber onto overcrowded lifeboats. The situation looked bleak for the few who survived the first twenty-four hours; there was nothing to eat and men resorted to drinking saltwater and their own urine to slake their thirst, but the effects of hypothermia and delirium began to take their toll.

Over 1,200 men lost their lives as a result of this tragedy.

Only forty men survived this ordeal, one of which was Royal Marine Ronald "Tubby" Healiss, who served as a member of a 4.7 gun crew on the Glorious. His award-winning account is a true and terrible record of suffering, which uncovers one of the greatest undocumented naval stories of the Second World War.


148 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released September 14, 2020
ISBN13 9781800550070
Publishers Sapere Books
Pages 148
Dimensions 227 × 151 × 15 mm   ·   236 g
Language English