{"product_id":"9780711276161-canberra-in-the-falklands","title":"The Canberra in the Falklands War","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Very Strange Way to go to War\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the extraordinary story untold until now, of how unlikely combatants like waiters, cooks, nurses and cleaners who never in their dreams imagined they could be caught up in a war, found themselves on the front line at the very end of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis fascinating and insightful book tells the thrilling story of the SS Canberra, the luxury passenger liner which was requesitioned as a troop transport in the Falkands War.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVast and brilliant white, P\u0026amp;O's flagship the SS \u003ci\u003eCanberra\u003c\/i\u003e was a final salute to a \u003cb\u003ebygone era of opulence\u003c\/b\u003e even as she embarked on her maiden voyage, For a decade she carried passengers between Britain and Australia, a 90-day voyage of pampering and decadence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut in March 1982, \u003cb\u003eBritain went to war to defend the Falkland Islands\u003c\/b\u003e and the SS \u003ci\u003eCanberra\u003c\/i\u003e found herself, surreally, requisitioned as a troop ship to \u003cb\u003ecarry the Marines and Paratroops into battle.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAgainst all odds she surived\u003c\/b\u003e, playing a vital role as a hospital ship, and at the end of the war she arrived back in Southampton to a hero's welcome, where she became fondly known as the Great White Whale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the \u003cb\u003eextraordinary and, as yet, untold story \u003c\/b\u003eof how the crew of a luxury ocean liner — waiters, cooks, nurses and cleaners — found themselves suddenly thrust onto the front line.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Very Strange Way to Go to War is a\u003cb\u003e candid and captivating story,\u003c\/b\u003e drawing from first hand accounts and previously unpublished archives, of the\u003cb\u003e heroic courage of ordinary British men and women \u003c\/b\u003ein the face of great adversity, at the outpost of empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943410315361,"sku":"9780711276161","price":8.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28475802.jpg?v=1722625980","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780711276161-canberra-in-the-falklands","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}