Derek Law Bibliography

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PHILLIPS, John Henry. The Search: The True Story of a D-Day Survivor, An Unlikely Friendship, and a Lost Shipwreck Off Normandy. ix, 324p., maps, index. London: Robinson, 2022. ISBN: 9781472146182.

The story of Landing Craft Headquarters (LCH) 185, which led the assault on Sword Beach but was sunk by a mine on 25th June 1944. A chance meeting between the author (an archaeologist) and Patrick Thomas, one of the few survivors, at a D-Day commemoration in 2016 led to a hunt for the wreck of the LCH. The story jumps backward and forward between the story of the landing craft’s war service, Thomas’s wartime service in the RN and the ultimately  successful hunt for the wreck.