52 Days 1943
The Queen Olga and the Battle of Leros: Underwater Filming and Research
Κυκλοφορεί
ISBN: 978-960-03-3732-7
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Γλώσσα: Αγγλικά
€ 63.60 (περ. ΦΠΑ 6%)
Βιβλίο, Σκληρόδετο
31 x 24 εκ., 1,736 γρ., 265 σελ.
Περιγραφή

It took four years of research, still unfinished; hundreds of photographs; over thirty hours of digital video footage; underwater shots of the artefacts of war; and dozens of hours of conversation with survivors from Greece and abroad to create this album of unique photographs, which constitutes a first in the international literature.
The photographs are accompanied by a number of short texts that constitute a veritable relay of memories, each eyewitness picking up the thread of their account at the point the previous witness left off.
The creation of this book has been a deeply emotional experience: it is our hope that we will succeed in sharing some of these feelings with our readers.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. The year 2000, the story begins. . .
Aircraft data
Identifying the aircraft
CHAPTER 2. The 'Queen Olga', a Greek destroyer
The last hours of the 'Queen Olga'
Commissioning the 'Queen Olga'
The 'Queen Olga' in action
Greece and Italy at war
The fleet that would not surrender
CHAPTER 3. The Malta of the Aegean
CHAPTER 4. Fifty two days in 1943
The overall picture and data concerning the war
The Battle of Leros
Events as related in the official German archives
Italian Battery 888
Events as recorded in the official German archives
CHAPTER 5. The fall of Leros
Events from the official German and Italian archives
The 'Oria', the unknown 'Titanic'
CHAPTER 6. Leros is annexed to Greece
CHAPTER 7. The raising of a legend
A letter from Andrea Hutter, 'a crew member in the Ju-52 squadron, who fought on Leros'
Identifying the place
EPILOGUE
BIBLIOGRAPHY - SOURCES

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