The Owl and the Pussy Cats

Michael Montgomery's other works include the travelogue All Out For Everest (hailed by the BBC as 'a must for all armchair travellers'), novels, Lear's Italy and Who Sank The Sydney?', an investigation of the mysterious 1941 loss of the WW2 cruiser and her 645 crew (which included his father) at the hands, according to the Navy, of a German raider. Since its first publication in 1981 he has gradually assembled evidence that she was actually sunk by a Japanese submarine which then machine-gunned the survivors, and that for reasons of political expediency all the governments concerned have continued to deny the facts. In response to growing public demand a Commission of Inquiry was recently set up in Australia, but its President was revealed to hold the rank of Commodore in the RANR and so it inevitably upheld the official story. He has also written a screenplay for a feature film based on The Owl and the Pussy Cats.