num_pages: 336
description: In November 1941 the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney with a crew of 645 disappeared off the coast of Western Australia. Shipwrecked German sailors told a tale of how their ship a lightly armoured merchant raider had sunk the pride of the Australian navy. What really happened in the desperate fight to the death between the two ships?
language: English
title: Sydney Cipher and Search: Solving the Last Great Naval Mystery of the Second World War
publisher: Seafarer Books