Stalin's Gold: The Story of HMS Edinburgh and its Treasure (1982) By Barrie Penrose
 
When the cruiser HMS Edinburgh was sunk in arctic waters in 1942, she took $74 million in Russian gold, payment for Allied war supplies, down 800 feet with her. Stalin's Gold reveals the story of the recovery in 1981 of all but $7 million of the sunken treasure - in the deepest, most lucrative and politically delicate salvage operation ever mounted. This is a story of success over unprecendented obstacles. It involves a tiny, untested British diving concern, uncertainty about the exact location of the wreck, and a delicate balance between Russian and British interests. The site was an officially designated War Grave that required careful handling. Divers worked at depths and temperatures never before attempted amid unexploded ordnance and thick oily sediment that made visibility almost nil. On the surface, an array of Russian and British officials kept an anxious eye on the accumulating gold - and each other. Told in compelling detail by the only journalist on the scene during the eight-week salvage operation, Stalin's Gold is a dramatic story of the most successful treasure hunt of all time.
 
Soft Cover
223 Pages
In Good condition