{"product_id":"9780571290338","title":"Secrets of the Conqueror : The Untold Story of Britain's Most Famous Submarine by Stuart Prebble","description":"HMS Conqueror is Britain's most famous submarine. It is the only sub since World War Two to have sunk an enemy ship. Conqueror's sinking of the Argentine cruiser Belgrano  made inevitable an all-out war over the future of the Falkland Islands,  and sparked off one of the most controversial episodes of twentieth  century politics. The controversy was fuelled by a war-diary kept by an officer on board HMS Conqueror,  and as a young TV producer in the 1980s Stuart Prebble scooped the  world by locating the diary's author and getting his story on the  record. But in the course of uncovering his Falklands story,  Stuart Prebble also learned a military secret which could have come  straight out of a Cold War thriller. It involved the Top Secret  activities of the Conqueror in the months before and after the Falklands War.   Prebble  has waited for thirty years to tell his story. It is a story of  incredible courage and derring-do, of men who put their lives on the  line and were never allowed to tell what they had done. This story,  buried under layers of official secrecy for three decades, is one of  Britain's great military success stories and can now finally be told.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56291345498485,"sku":"9780571290338","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571290338.jpg?v=1762739196","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780571290338","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}