The sinking of the German battleship Bismarck a masterpiece of engineering, well-armored with a main artillery of eight 15-inch guns was 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 2,000 German sailors to a watery grave. Zetterling and Tamelander s 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-Germany s last hope to pose a powerful surface threat to Allied convoys.
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... efficient and imaginative narrative... --Warships, 08/2009
The sinking of the battleship Bismarck was one of the most dramatic events of the Second World War... This is a detailed account of what happened.. --Britain at War Magazine
…a thorough treatment, including material from interviews with survivors of their sinkings and the impact they had on the naval war in the Atlantic. --Seapower, November 2010
A fresh look at the life and death of the most famous German warship of World War II…a very good read… --Strategy Page, Novebmer 2010
A fresh look at the life and death of the most famous German warship of World War II. --NYMAS, January 2010
essential background and new historical insights make otherwise inexplicable elements of the Bismarck story much clearer, without diminishing the drama of the epic sea chase and its vivid, human details. --World War II Magazine, September 2009
outstanding book about naval warfare…real time, you are there style that conveys all of the anxiety of actual combat at sea. --WWII History, September 2009
... a very interesting and useful history …once you start… you will be very hard pressed to stop until the smoke has cleared and the ship is sunk. --Internet Modeller, September 2009
…unable to put it down…I highly recommend this book for anyone that likes the study of naval battles or just wants to read about an action-packed sea battle. --IPMS, September 2009
... a very interesting and useful history …once you start… you will be very hard pressed to stop until the smoke has cleared and the ship is sunk. --Internet Modeller, September 2009
The sinking of the battleship Bismarck was one of the most dramatic events of the Second World War... This is a detailed account of what happened.. --Britain at War Magazine
…a thorough treatment, including material from interviews with survivors of their sinkings and the impact they had on the naval war in the Atlantic. --Seapower, November 2010
A fresh look at the life and death of the most famous German warship of World War II…a very good read… --Strategy Page, Novebmer 2010
A fresh look at the life and death of the most famous German warship of World War II. --NYMAS, January 2010
essential background and new historical insights make otherwise inexplicable elements of the Bismarck story much clearer, without diminishing the drama of the epic sea chase and its vivid, human details. --World War II Magazine, September 2009
outstanding book about naval warfare…real time, you are there style that conveys all of the anxiety of actual combat at sea. --WWII History, September 2009
... a very interesting and useful history …once you start… you will be very hard pressed to stop until the smoke has cleared and the ship is sunk. --Internet Modeller, September 2009
…unable to put it down…I highly recommend this book for anyone that likes the study of naval battles or just wants to read about an action-packed sea battle. --IPMS, September 2009
... a very interesting and useful history …once you start… you will be very hard pressed to stop until the smoke has cleared and the ship is sunk. --Internet Modeller, September 2009
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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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..exciting and competent re-telling of the hunt, pursuit and final destruction of one of the mightiest battleships ever to put to sea. A tremendous British victory, the heroism of the sea-and-airmen involved is calmly and dispassionately portrayed in this fine account. After the shock of the loss of the Royal Navy's battleship Hood with virtually all hands, the attempts to shake off the pursuing pack and the desperate attacks flown by the Navy's venerable Swordfish torpedo bombers are nicely built up by the authors to the final denouement, as the Bismarck, crippled by a torpedo strike, is shelled into oblivion..
A couple of criticisms; the authors don't bring much new information to the table and their style is ponderous and leaden to say the least. This is not helped by the authors attempt to weigh up and evaluate the decision making process undertaken at each stage of the hunt by the various interested parties. On the German side they rely heavily of course on Mullenheim-Rechberg's memoir but don't appear to realise that an English translation was published. The authors are not native-speakers and sentence construction is predictably and unfortunately rather wooden in places, while this work has more typos and omissions than any other similar work I've ever read. In short the text desperately needed copy editing. Recommended despite these shortcomings.
A couple of criticisms; the authors don't bring much new information to the table and their style is ponderous and leaden to say the least. This is not helped by the authors attempt to weigh up and evaluate the decision making process undertaken at each stage of the hunt by the various interested parties. On the German side they rely heavily of course on Mullenheim-Rechberg's memoir but don't appear to realise that an English translation was published. The authors are not native-speakers and sentence construction is predictably and unfortunately rather wooden in places, while this work has more typos and omissions than any other similar work I've ever read. In short the text desperately needed copy editing. Recommended despite these shortcomings.
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By Andy Booth
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I'm not a Naval historian, just very interested in understanding the true events. I thought this book was a compelling read from start to finish and told the story in a was that was both engaging and easy to understand.
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By BenRB
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An interesting and well written account of the story of the sinking of the Bismark - a real page turner - I thoroughly enjoyed it
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