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The Silent Service (book)

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Country
  
Australia

Publication date
  
1944

Authors
  
Tom Jones, Ion Idriess

Publisher
  
Angus & Robertson

Language
  
English

Originally published
  
1944

Genre
  
Non-fiction

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The Silent Service: Action Stories of the Anzac Navy is a 1944 non-fiction book by Ion Idriess in collaboration with Torpedoman Tom Jones, a navy man of 17 years experience. It contains 54 different stories about the achievements of the Royal Australian Navy in World War Two.

It includes accounts of the Battle of the River Plate, Battle of Dakar, sinking of the Richilieu, the Siege of Malta, the Battle of the Java Sea, the Battle of Cape Matapan and the Battle of the Coral Sea.

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The Silent Service (book) Wikipedia