The Scrap Iron Flotilla: Five Valiant Destroyers and the Australian War in the Mediterranean

Mike Carlton

The British Admiralty's telegram arrived at Navy Office in Melbourne, the order to go to all-out war. It was coldly succinct- TOTAL GERMANY ... The war at sea had begun.When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, the British asked Australia for help. With some misgivings, the Australian gover...