THE BOOKS OF PETER C. SMITH
EAGLE'S WAR: The War Diary of an aircraft-carrier.
H/B Crecy Publishing, Manchester 1995
(ISBN 0 94755460 2); Czech Edition Nase Vojsko, Prague, 2009; P/B Edition,
Goodall, Manchester, Autumn 2009; P/B Maltese Edition, Miller, Autumn 2009.
The war diary of an aircraft carrier. One
of the Royal Navy's first aircraft carriers, the Eagle was built on the
hull of a Chilean battleship. She pioneered naval aviation in the 1920's and
1930's and spent many years in the Far East.
Old, outclassed and small when war broke out, she still performed invaluable
service in the front line. The only aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean Fleet
of Admiral Cunningham, she survived innumerable bombing attacks by Axis
aircraft and her own planes fought at the battles of Calabria
and Taranto and
a host of lesser actions.
Later she became involved in ferrying
fighter aircraft, Hurricanes and Spitfires, to Malta from the west and took part
in many such operations which saved the island. Finally she was part of the
great Pedestal convoy of August, 1942, and met her gallant end at the
hands of a U-boat. Packed with original photographs and eyewitness stories this
account of the work of one carrier in a global war is a fitting tribute to the
original FAA. Paul Freshney writing in Test
Bench described Eagle’s War
thus:- “This is a fascinating book for those who have an interest in WW2
naval history and is well and competently written.”
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