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Books : The Final Dive: The Life and Death of Buster Crabb
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The Final Dive: The Life and Death of Buster Crabb by: Don Hale List Price: £19.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £14.99 You Save: £5.00 (25%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 359.0092 EAN: 9780750945745 ISBN: 0750945745 Label: Sutton Publishing (NPI Media Group) Manufacturer: Sutton Publishing (NPI Media Group) Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: November 21, 2007 Publisher: Sutton Publishing (NPI Media Group) Studio: Sutton Publishing (NPI Media Group) Sales Rank: 54055 Related Items:
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 Rating: - A must-have edition for all spy mystery fansThe Final Dive: The Life and Death of Buster Crabb by Don Hale December 07 Published by Sutton at £19.99 In April 1956, Commander Lionel 'Buster' Crabb disappeared during a secret mission at Portsmouth harbour. An accomplished navy frogman, he swam under the hull of a Russian warship, surfaced and told his colleagues that he was going in for a closer look. He never returned. The authorities claimed that Crabb got into difficulties during his dive as the forty-eight-year-old was a heavy smoker and drinker. Other factions wondered if the Russians were involved. Indeed, some of his family were convinced that he'd defected to Russia and would soon get in touch with them, but he never did. Fourteen months after Crabb's ... Read More: Rating: - The final dive - the final story.Nothing to do with early black and white films of Flash Gordon, this excellent book is the story of Commander Lionel Crabb O.B.E. The British diver and bomb disposal expert of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserves as immortalised in the film "Silent Enemy" starring Laurence Harvey. This book details his life, and his mysterious disappearance and death on his final dive in 1956 whilst carrying out a top secret mission involving Russian ships in Portsmouth harbour. Something that the authorities tried to cover up at the time, and are still covering up today, keeping important documents and records under raps until the year 2057. The book tells of Crabb's life from a small boy at the time of World War one, through his varied and colourful life ... Read More: |
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