<div>In November 1941, the HMAS <I>Sydney</I>, the pride of Australia’s wartime fleet, and its crew of 645 disappeared without a trace off the Western Australian coast. All that was known was <I>Sydney</I> had come under fire from the German raider HSK <I>Kormoran</I>, which also sank. After numerous unsuccessful searches from the mid-1970s onwards, the Finding Sydney Foundation was set up and, in March 2008, one of Australia’s greatest maritime mysteries was solved when both wrecks were finally discovered. <I>The Search for HMAS Sydney</I> pieces together the incredible story of <I>Sydney</I>, its crew, and the families left behind. It details the innovative and powerful research procedures implemented by the Finding Sydney Foundation to locate the wrecks of <I>Sydney</I> and <I>Kormoran</I>, their discovery, and the detailed forensic analyses and commemorations that followed.</div>