Sink HMS "Kelly" - Hardcover

The dramatic story of Lord Louis Mountbatten and his ill-fated ship; As captain of the Kelly, Mountbatten was at the height of his naval fame. He commanded a crack destroyer flotilla and the Kelly was one of the latest ships in the Royal Navy, manned by the pick of the Senior Service's finest officers and ratings. But he had two fatal weaknesses - his wife, the spoilt Edwina, and his overweening ambition. Originally a Battenberg, Mountbatten had been forced to change his name following press attacks over his half-German ancestry. Hitler now wanted to destroy this 'traitor' and 'renegade', this 'turncoat German', but Mountbatten would not even let Hitler stand in his way. The Kelly survived the severest blows - striking a mine in 1939 and nearly sinking after being torpedoed in 1940. But when, south of Crete in May 1941, an attack of dive bombers rolled the Kelly over, her luck had finally run out.

Duncan Harding is a pseudonym for Charles Whiting, who also writes as Leo Kessler and John Kerrigan. He has had over 250 books published, encompassing military history, espionage, biography and action fiction. Holder of the Sir George Dowty Prize for Literature, he is one of the most popular borrowed authors in UK lending libraries.