Download or read book Battleship written by Martin Middlebrook and published by Penguin Uk. This book was released on 2001 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Wednesday 10 December 1941, the third day of the war with Japan, two Royal Navy capital ships were sunk off Malaya by air torpedo attack. They had not requested the air support that could have saved them and 840 men died in the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser HMS Repulse.