Amid the turmoil of the dying days of the Second World War, a series of ships were sunk in the Baltic. These terrible disasters add up to be the greatest loss of life ever recorded at sea, but the stories of these ships have been lost from view. While everyone recognises the name Titanic, the names Cap Arcona, Goya, General von Steuben and Thielbek draw little more than blank stares.Claes-Gran Wetterholm bringsthe horror of these tragic eventsto life in this gripping study, firstpublished in Swedish, as hecollates the unknown stories offour major shipping disasters, themost terrible in history. Combiningarchive research with interviewswith survivors and the relatives ofthose who died, Wetterholm vividlyconveys his experiences of meetingmany witnesses to a forgotten andhorrifying piece of history.