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HMNZS Achilles by Jack S. Harker

HMNZS Achilles by Jack S. Harker

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    HMNZS Achilles
    by Jack S. Harker
    FIRST EDITION.  Hard cover
    .  Collins
    , 1980. 264
    pages.  Photographs.  Fine
    book
    in fine dust jacket.  Great copy!
    Achilles, 7200-ton light cruiser. In brief, her record runs: launched on the Mersey, 1932. In 1936 the Admiralty handed her over to New Zealand's Navy Board. In 1939, with Exeter and Ajax, she was in at the death of Graf Spee. She played a distinguished part in the crucial operations at Guadalcanal, 1943.An internal explosion while refitting at Portsmouth prevented her from participating in the 1944 Normandy landings, but in 1945 she was back in the Pacific to fight in the terminal actions of the war against Japan. In 1946 she was handed back to the Admiralty and in 1948 she was acquired by the Indian Navy, who renamed her Delhi, under which name she served until 1978, when she was broken up. But, as author Jack Harker says, `Achilles was the men who served in her'. As one of those men he chronicles her service with the RNZN: peacetime training and Islands cruising; the endless tedium of escort duties and of fruitless hunting for elusive German commerce-raiders; grim drama at the River Plate; early actions in the Pacific war, and the closing months of that unequalled naval conflict. All is seen from the lower deck. The comedies and tragedies, the boredoms and the excitements, the wealth of stories of Jack afloat and ashore, all build up into a gripping portrayal of what it was to serve through a whole war in a distinguished fighting ship. This book is a splendid tribute to that ship and to the New Zealanders and Imperials who lived - and died - in Achilles.
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