ISBN10: 184354590X, ISBN13: 9781843545903, [publisher: Atlantic Books, London] Hardcover First Edition FOUR WEEKS IN MAY The Loss of HMS Coventry A Captain's Story David Hart Dyke. Atlantic Books, London 2007 Firsat Edition. ISBN 9781843545903 272pp Illustrated Hardback. This copy is in mint condition in amint unclipped dustwrapper. In March 1982, the guided-missile destroyer HMS Coventry was one of a small squadron of ships on exercise off Gibraltar. By the end of April that year, she was sailing south in the vanguard of the Task Force towards the Falklands. As diplomacy failed, crisis became conflict. By the time the ship left Ascension Island, its company knew war was inevitable - a war in which they would be in the front line. For Coventry, the war began in earnest on 1 May. Her job was to be 'on picket' to the north west of the islands. She was to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft from the west, and fend off any incoming threat to the highly valuable ships and aircraft behind her. On 25 May, Coventry was attacked by two Argentine Skyhawks, and hit by three bombs. The explosions tore out most of her port side and killed 19 of the crew, leaving many others injured - mostly by burns. Within twenty minutes, she had capsized, and was to sink early the next day. In her final moments, when all those not killed by the explosions had been evacuated from the ship, her Captain, David Hart Dyke, himself badly burned, climbed down her ...