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Bismarck The Final Days of Germany's Greatest Battleship By: Niklas Zetterling Michael Tamelander

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Casemate, May 2009

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A gripping tale of heroism and doomon the high seas . . . The sinking of the German battleship Bismarcka masterpiece of engineering well-armored with a main artillery of eight 15-inch gunswas one of the most dramatic events of World War II. She left the port of Gotenhafen for her first operation on the night of 18 May 1941 yet was almost immediately discovered by Norwegian resistance and Allied air reconnaissance. British battlecruiser Hood was quickly dispatched from Scapa Flow to intercept the Bismarck together with new battleship Prince of Wales. They were ordered to find the ship quickly because on their way from the USA several large convoys were heading for Britain. On 24 May Bismarck was found off the coast of Greenland but the ensuing battle was disastrous for the British. The Hood was totally destroyed within minutes (only 3 crewmen surviving) and Prince of Wales was badly damaged. The chase resumed until the German behemoth was finally caught this time by four British capital ships supported by torpedo-bombers from the carrier Ark Royal. The icy North Atlantic roiled from the crash of shellfire and bursting explosions until finally the Bismarck collapsed sending nearly 2000 German sailors to a watery grave. Tamelander and Zetterlings work rests on stories from survivors and the latest historical discoveries. The book starts with a thorough account of maritime developments from 1871 up to the era of the giant battleship and ends with a vivid account hour by hour of the dramatic and fateful hunt for the mighty Bismarck Nazi-Germanys last hope to pose a powerful surface threat to Allied convoys. NIKLAS ZETTERLING a researcher at the Swedish Defense College is most recently co-author of The Korsun Pocket: The Encirclement and Breakout of a German Army in the East 1944. Together with MICHAEL TAMELANDER a part-time military author they have written books about the battleship Tirpitz the D-Day landings and the 1940 campaign in Norway.

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