</head> <body background="../warbak.gif"> <div align="center" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-left: 4; padding-right: 4; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1"> <table border="0" width="85%" height="264"> <tr> <td width="100%" align="center" colspan="3" height="81"> <a href="../Catalogue/cat1.html" style="text-decoration:none"> TO CATALOGUE</a> BITTER VICTORY THE DEATH OF HMAS SYDNEY WESLEY OLSON </td> </tr> <center> <tr> <td width="37%" align="right" valign="middle" height="1"> <img border="0" src="../Bookthumbnails/SeekingtheSydney.jpg" width="67" height="100"> OTHER BOOKS ON THIS SUBJECT PLUS SEVERAL OUT-OF-PRINT </td> <td width="15%" align="center" valign="middle" height="1"> <div style="border-style:solid; border-width:1; width:185; height:240; padding-left:4; padding-right:4; padding-top:1; padding-bottom:1"> <img border="0" src="../Bookthumbnails/BitterVictory.jpg" width="163" height="220"></div> SCROLL DOWN FOR REVIEWS</td> <td width="49%" align="left" valign="middle" height="1"> [ <a href="../orderformnew.htm" style="text-decoration: none"> ORDER HERE ]</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="31%" align="center" bgcolor="#C0C0C0" height="19"> PAGES</td> <td width="27%" align="center" bgcolor="#C0C0C0" height="19"> COVER</td> <td width="43%" align="center" bgcolor="#C0C0C0" height="19"> PUBLISHED</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="31%" align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" height="31"> 431</td> <td width="27%" align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" height="31"> HARDBACK</td> <td width="43%" align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" height="31"> 2000</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" align="center" colspan="3" height="27"> . <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="82%" id="AutoNumber1"> <tr> <td width="33%" align="left"> AUSTRALIA AUD $:</td> <td width="12%" align="center"> 58</td> <td width="55%"> Including postage in Australia</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="33%" align="left"> PNG AND NZ AUD $: [ EXCHANGE RATES BELOW ]</td> <td width="12%" align="center">79</td> <td width="55%"> Including Economy Airmail (7-14 days)</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="33%" align="left"> THE WORLD AUD $: [ EXCHANGE RATES BELOW ]</td> <td width="12%" align="center">87</td> <td width="55%"> Including Economy Airmail (7-14 days)</td> </tr> </table> .</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" align="center" colspan="3" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="67"> <div style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-left: 4; padding-right: 4; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1"> At 1340 hrs on 11 November 1941, HMAS Sydney sailed from Fremantle on a routine escort mission. She should have docked on the afternoon of 20 November but failed to arrive. Search aircraft were despatched on 24 November but were unable to locate the ship. That afternoon, the Navy Office learned that German naval men had been recovered from a raft in the Sunda Strait-Fremantle shipping lane, claiming that their ship had been sunk by a cruiser. In the days that followed, more German survivors were found, all telling the same story. They had been involved in an action with a Perth-Class cruiser on the afternoon of 19 November. Their ship the auxiliary cruiser Kormoran, was set on fire and had to be abandoned. The cruiser later identified as HMAS Sydney was last glimpsed as a glow on the horizon. Sydney and its entire complement of 645 officers and crew were never seen again and virtually no debris was seen. What actually happened? </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" align="center" colspan="3" height="88"> EXCHANGE RATES <a HREF="http://www.xe.com/ucc/" target="_blank"><IMG SRC="http://www.xe.com/gen/illegal2copy-w.gif" WIDTH=45 HEIGHT=45 BORDER=0 ALT="UCC"></a> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> </body> </html>

Bitter Victory </head> <body background="../warbak.gif"> <div align="center" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-left: 4; padding-right: 4; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1"> <table border="0" width="85%" height="264"> <tr> <td width="100%" align="center" colspan="3" height="81"> <a href="../Catalogue/cat1.html" style="text-decoration:none"> TO CATALOGUE</a> BITTER VICTORY THE DEATH OF HMAS SYDNEY WESLEY OLSON </td> </tr> <center> <tr> <td width="37%" align="right" valign="middle" height="1"> <img border="0" src="../Bookthumbnails/SeekingtheSydney.jpg" width="67" height="100"> OTHER BOOKS ON THIS SUBJECT PLUS SEVERAL OUT-OF-PRINT </td> <td width="15%" align="center" valign="middle" height="1"> <div style="border-style:solid; border-width:1; width:185; height:240; padding-left:4; padding-right:4; padding-top:1; padding-bottom:1"> <img border="0" src="../Bookthumbnails/BitterVictory.jpg" width="163" height="220"></div> SCROLL DOWN FOR REVIEWS</td> <td width="49%" align="left" valign="middle" height="1"> [ <a href="../orderformnew.htm" style="text-decoration: none"> ORDER HERE ]</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="31%" align="center" bgcolor="#C0C0C0" height="19"> PAGES</td> <td width="27%" align="center" bgcolor="#C0C0C0" height="19"> COVER</td> <td width="43%" align="center" bgcolor="#C0C0C0" height="19"> PUBLISHED</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="31%" align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" height="31"> 431</td> <td width="27%" align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" height="31"> HARDBACK</td> <td width="43%" align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" height="31"> 2000</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" align="center" colspan="3" height="27"> . <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="82%" id="AutoNumber1"> <tr> <td width="33%" align="left"> AUSTRALIA AUD $:</td> <td width="12%" align="center"> 58</td> <td width="55%"> Including postage in Australia</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="33%" align="left"> PNG AND NZ AUD $: [ EXCHANGE RATES BELOW ]</td> <td width="12%" align="center">79</td> <td width="55%"> Including Economy Airmail (7-14 days)</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="33%" align="left"> THE WORLD AUD $: [ EXCHANGE RATES BELOW ]</td> <td width="12%" align="center">87</td> <td width="55%"> Including Economy Airmail (7-14 days)</td> </tr> </table> .</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" align="center" colspan="3" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="67"> <div style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1; padding-left: 4; padding-right: 4; padding-top: 1; padding-bottom: 1"> At 1340 hrs on 11 November 1941, HMAS Sydney sailed from Fremantle on a routine escort mission. She should have docked on the afternoon of 20 November but failed to arrive. Search aircraft were despatched on 24 November but were unable to locate the ship. That afternoon, the Navy Office learned that German naval men had been recovered from a raft in the Sunda Strait-Fremantle shipping lane, claiming that their ship had been sunk by a cruiser. In the days that followed, more German survivors were found, all telling the same story. They had been involved in an action with a Perth-Class cruiser on the afternoon of 19 November. Their ship the auxiliary cruiser Kormoran, was set on fire and had to be abandoned. The cruiser later identified as HMAS Sydney was last glimpsed as a glow on the horizon. Sydney and its entire complement of 645 officers and crew were never seen again and virtually no debris was seen. What actually happened? </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" align="center" colspan="3" height="88"> EXCHANGE RATES <a HREF="http://www.xe.com/ucc/" target="_blank"><IMG SRC="http://www.xe.com/gen/illegal2copy-w.gif" WIDTH=45 HEIGHT=45 BORDER=0 ALT="UCC"></a> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> </body> </html>