The Sunken Gold: A Story of World War I Espionage and the Greatest Treasure Salvage in History by Joseph A. Williams

The Sunken Gold: A Story of World War I Espionage and the Greatest Treasure Salvage in History

Joseph A. Williams

352 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history informative tense slow-paced
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On January 25, 1917, HMS Laurentic struck two German mines off the coast of Ireland and sank. The ship was carrying 44 tons of gold bullion to the still-neutral United States via Canada in order to finance the war effort for Britain and its allies...

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