OPERATION TABARIN (PB)

Based upon contemporary sources, including official reports and the diaries and letters of the participants, this book tells the story of the only Antarctic expedition to be launched by any of the combatant nations during the Second World War. Originally conceived as a means by which to safeguard the Falkland Islands from Japanese invasion and to deny harbours in the sub-Antarctic territories to German surface raiders and U-boats, Operation Tabarin is one of the most curious episodes in what Ernest Shackleton called ‘the white warfare of the south’.