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January 1972 the tiny outpost of British Honduras is threatened with imminent invasion by battlehardened UStrained Guatemalan paratroops Britains response must be immediate and decisive But there is only one deterrent the government can offer HMS Ark Royal once the Navys most powerful warship now a white elephant on the verge of being scrapped
To save the small colony she must launch a pair of Buccaneer fighter bombers on an unprecedented longrange mission But first the old carrier must make a highspeed 1500 mile dash across the Atlantic towards the Gulf of Mexico The odds of arriving in time are very slim indeed
Drawing on extensive firsthand accounts and previously unseen classified documents Rowland White has pieced together one of the most audacious and thrilling missions of postwar British military history
Rowland White 2009 P Penguin Audio 2022
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