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Author : Russell Grenfell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (427 download)
Download or read book The Bismarck Episode written by Russell Grenfell and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Grenfell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Bismarck Episode written by R. Grenfell and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Russell Grenfell
Publisher : Peter Smith Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780844640242
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Bismarck Episode written by Russell Grenfell and published by Peter Smith Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 1940-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Russell Grenfell
Publisher : America Reads: Rediscovered Fi
ISBN 13 : 9781594161100
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (611 download)
Download or read book The Bismarck Episode written by Russell Grenfell and published by America Reads: Rediscovered Fi. This book was released on 2010 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Captain Grenfell has both the background and literary ability to bring the whole dramatic story brilliantly alive." --San Francisco Chronicle "A remarkably lucid account." --Time Magazine "Thoroughly rewarding." --New York Times "Full of dramatic interest." --Times Literary Supplement The British Navy's sinking of a notorious symbol of Nazi Germany, the battleship Bismarck, in May 1941 ranks as one of the most significant victories of the Second World War. It was imperative that Britain find and destroy the Bismarck, a true threat to Britain's ocean lifeline, before it could escape into the Atlantic. In The Bismarck Episode a veteran naval writer tells the intense and dramatic story of how the battleship was discovered, pursued, and ultimately destroyed.
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Author : Russell Grenfell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Bismarck Episode, Etc. [With Photographs and a Map.]. written by Russell Grenfell and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Roy Forbes Harrod
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (959 download)
Download or read book The Bismarck Episode written by Sir Roy Forbes Harrod and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Capt. Russell Grenfell
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787202429
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)
Download or read book The Bismarck Episode [Illustrated Edition] written by Capt. Russell Grenfell and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As breathtakingly exciting as the most thrilling mystery... This epic story begins May 21, 1941, when the British Admiralty received the report that two large German warships had been seen steaming northward through the Kattegat, between Denmark and Sweden. Six days later the shattered hulk of the Bismarck turned bottom up and disappeared beneath the waves a few hundred miles from Brest. In those six days an awe-inspiring drama played itself out. The morale of our British allies was at its lowest ebb. For them, standing alone against the German might, the sinking of the Bismarck was a matter of life and death. But before they could engage her, they had first of all to find her—to hunt her down in the stormy sea-wastes. So mighty an undertaking required some inspired guesswork, and the use of 8 battleships, 2 aircraft carriers, 4 eight-inch gun cruisers, 7 other cruisers, 21 destroyers, and 6 submarines. It also meant the sinking of the battleship Hood and the destroyer Mashona, with the loss of many hundreds of lives. The story of this terrible chase is a story of ups and downs, hopes and anxieties, bitter disappointment and miraculous recovery—a marvelous picture of naval action such as we rarely find in true stories. In addition the battle is illuminated with comments on strategy and tactics which every reader can appreciate. It is hard to imagine that anyone who opens this book will put it down unfinished. Illustrated with maps and plans
Author : Iain Ballantyne
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1848849605
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Killing the Bismarck written by Iain Ballantyne and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An excellent account . . . A suspenseful narrative that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.” —WWII History Magazine In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck, accompanied by heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, broke out into the Atlantic to attack Allied shipping. The Royal Navy’s pursuit and subsequent destruction of Bismarck was an epic of naval warfare. In this new account of those dramatic events at the height of the Second World War, Iain Ballantyne draws extensively on the graphic eyewitness testimony of veterans, to construct a thrilling story, mainly from the point of view of the British battleships, cruisers, and destroyers involved. He describes the tense atmosphere as cruisers play a lethal cat and mouse game, shadowing Bismarck in the icy Denmark Strait. We witness the shocking destruction of the British battle cruiser Hood, in which all but three of her ship’s complement were killed—an event that filled pursuing Royal Navy warships, including the battered battleship Prince of Wales, with a thirst for revenge. While Swordfish torpedo-bombers try desperately to cripple the Bismarck, we sail in destroyers on their own daring torpedo attacks, battling mountainous seas. Finally, the author takes us into the final showdown, as battleships Rodney and King George V, supported by cruisers Norfolk and Dorsetshire, destroy the pride of Hitler’s fleet. This vivid, superbly researched account portrays this epic saga through the eyes of so-called “ordinary sailors” caught up in extraordinary events—conveying the horror and majesty of war at sea in all its cold brutality and awesome power.
Author : Michael Tamelander
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1935149822
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Bismarck written by Michael Tamelander and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Blitzkrieg covers one of the most dramatic events of the Second World War in an “outstanding book about naval warfare” (World War II History). When the German battleship Bismarck—a masterpiece of engineering, well-armored with a main artillery of eight 15-inch guns—left the port of Gotenhafen for her first operation on the night of May 18, 1941, the British battlecruiser Hood and the new battleship Prince of Wales were ordered to find her quickly, as several large convoys were heading for Britain. On May 24, Bismarck was found off the coast of Greenland, but the ensuing battle was disastrous for the British. The Hood was totally destroyed within minutes, with only three 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 two thousand German sailors to a watery grave. Tamelander and Zetterling’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. “Exciting story-telling . . . recreat[es] the thrill of the hunt.” —International Journal of Maritime History “[An] epic sea chase and its vivid, human details.” —World War II
Author : Iain Ballantyne
Publisher : Ipso Books
ISBN 13 : 1504059158
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Bismarck written by Iain Ballantyne and published by Ipso Books. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With extensive eyewitness accounts, the author of Killing the Bismarck vividly reconstructs the day British soldiers sank the infamous Nazi battleship. May 26, 1941. After a desperate chase lasting three days and more than seventeen hundred miles, Britain’s Home Fleet would finally close in on the world’s most powerful battleship, the very ship that sank the Royal Navy’s battlecruiser HMS Hood. The German battleship Bismarck was literally in a class by itself, being one of two newly-designed Bismarck-class ships in the German fleet. But it would soon face, and ultimately lose, a brutal fight to the finish involving more than five thousand men of the Royal Navy and twenty-six thousand men of Hitler’s Kriegsmarine. Historian Iain Ballantyne spent years conducting interviews with surviving veterans who had been present on that fateful day. Published here for the first time, alongside a compelling narrative of the final twenty-four hours of the mission to sink the Bismarck, are transcripts of those interviews, offering the unique eyewitness accounts of Royal Navy sailors who participated in one of the most significant sea battles of World War II.
Author : William Shirer
Publisher : Young Voyageur
ISBN 13 : 0760354332
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)
Download or read book The Sinking of the Bismarck written by William Shirer and published by Young Voyageur. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed historian provides a thrilling account of the British Navy's unlikely defeat of the world's most feared battleship!
Author : Robert J. Winklareth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781861762054
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Bismarck Chase written by Robert J. Winklareth and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2002 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sinking of HMS Hood, pride of the Royal Navy, by the German battleship Bismarck off Iceland on 24 May 1941 is one of the most famous naval battles of WW2, and one of the most controversial. Previous accounts have criticised the actions of the British commander Admiral Holland, but this book explains the battle of the Denmark Strait in the light of extensive computer modelling of the action based on analysis of time and range data, correcting several discrepancies in earlier accounts.
Author : Angus Konstam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472833856
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Hunt the Bismarck written by Angus Konstam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking narrative account of one of World War II's most exciting chase stories, the pursuit of the legendary German battleship Bismarck. Hunt the Bismarck tells the story of Operation Rheinübung, the Atlantic sortie of Nazi Germany's largest battleship, Bismarck, in May 1941 and her subsequent pursuit by the Royal Navy. Bismarck entered naval service in the summer of 1940. She was well-armed, with eight 15in guns as well as a powerful array of lighter weapons, while her armoured protection earned her the reputation of being unsinkable. This claim was put to the test in May 1941 when she sortied into the Atlantic and fought the legendary battle of the Denmark Strait, destroying HMS Hood, the pride of the Royal Navy. Bismarck was now loose in the North Atlantic. However, damage sustained in the battle limited her ability to roam at will, and the Royal Navy deployed the Home Fleet to avenge the sinking of the Hood. The stage was set for the greatest chase story in the history of naval warfare. Drawing on a wealth of first-hand accounts and intertwining extensive research into a fast-paced narrative, this is the most readable and accurate account of Bismarck's epic pursuit ever produced.
Author : Marco Santarini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781552315
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (523 download)
Download or read book Bismarck and Hood written by Marco Santarini and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds new light on one of the most talked about incidents of the Second World War: the mighty duel betweenHMS Hood and the Bismarck. The author offers fresh evidence from recent studies of the wreck of theHood to unravel what happened on that fateful day.
Author : James Wycliffe Headlam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire ... written by James Wycliffe Headlam and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bascom Barry Hayes
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838635124
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Bismarck and Mitteleuropa written by Bascom Barry Hayes and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "His labors were often fruitless. His own master, Wilhelm I, and the Prussian bureaucrats, diplomats, and courtiers with direct access to this first of Bismarck's Wilhelmian nemeses could be at least as obstructionist in Berlin as Franz Joseph and his minions in Vienna. In fact, all too often Bismarck's lack of control over the Prussian elites was in part responsible for the resistance of the Habsburg ruling circle.".
Author : Iain Ballantyne
Publisher : Canelo
ISBN 13 : 1804363413
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Bismarck: 24 Hours to Doom written by Iain Ballantyne and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a major television documentary (Channel 4, 2021) The epic mission to destroy Hitler’s flagship. ‘Bismarck was now loose in the Atlantic ... we had to find and sink her.’ May, 1941. The most powerful battleship the world has ever seen, the German Navy’s Bismarck, breaks out into the Atlantic to ravage Allied convoys. Together with the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, the Bismarck will seek to deliver a killer blow to Britain’s war effort. The British launch an all-or-nothing bid to sink her, with the Home Fleet and other naval units steaming hard from all points of the compass, straining every sinew to trap and destroy Bismarck. HMS Hood, the battlecruiser pride of the Royal Navy, is destroyed within eight minutes of engaging Bismarck on 24 May. However, the brand new battleship HMS Prince of Wales lands a pivotal blow on Bismarck, puncturing a fuel tank, forcing the German battleship to make for refuge in a friendly port. Reeling from the loss of the Hood, the Royal Navy redoubles its efforts, intent on avenging lost shipmates. Aircraft carrier Ark Royal, along with battleships King George V and Rodney, plus cruisers and destroyers, are among those who hunt and pursue the foe over more than 1,700 miles. This is the story of Bismarck’s fateful final twenty-four hours on 26/27 May 1941: the finale of the hunt and the culminating brutal close-quarters battle as Bismarck makes a desperate bid to escape the enemy. Using eyewitness accounts of Royal Navy sailors, Royal Marines and Swordfish torpedo-bomber aviators – including searing testimony gleaned by the author during unique interviews with a ‘band of brothers’ who were in the thick of the action - Ballantyne brings one of the Second World War’s most dramatic events thundering to life. He also draws on new research in museum archives and other accounts from both the British and German side, to present a multi-dimensional, cinematic telling of a legendary episode in naval combat history. An epic story, told with compelling immediacy, it takes readers aboard warships in unforgiving seas, into the cockpits of warplanes in shrapnel-lashed skies and even inside a U-boat under a cruel ocean. Perfect for readers of Richard Hough and Saul David. Praise for Bismarck: 24 Hours to Doom ‘A powerful and moving cinematic study devoted to what has to be the most dramatic event of the Second World War at sea’ Julian Stockwin, author of the Thomas Kydd series of naval adventures ‘By drawing on the first-hand experiences of veterans in the thick of the action, Iain Ballantyne has produced a deeply researched and unputdownable account of the hunt for the Bismarck that is at once authoritative, insightful and highly readable’ Rowland White, author of Harrier 809 and Vulcan 607
