"The Navy's Here!" The Altmark Affair (WWII)

"The Navy's Here!" The Altmark Affair (WWII)

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South Africa
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Published by Gollancz, London, 1955, hardcover, illustrated, 255 pages, some loss to dust jacket otherwise condition: very good.

The Altmark incident or affair was a naval incident of World War II between British destroyers and the German tanker Altmark, which happened on 1617 February 1940. It took place in what were neutral Norwegian waters. On board the Altmark were roughly 300 Allied prisoners (officially internees), whose ships had been sunk by the pocket battleship Graf Spee in the Southern Atlantic Ocean.
The phrase "the Navy's here" became well known in Britain and was used as the title of this book about the incident; the publisher referred to "the simple statement which stirred the imagination of the world". A popular song was written by Ross Parker and Hughie Charles and saluted the incident by comparing it with those of Drake, Nelson, Beatty and Fisher.
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