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Bismarck: Germany's Last Great Battleship

by Stephen Carrington
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798197042903
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 168
  • Original Price: GBP 10.45
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 200 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General

In Bismarck: Germany's Last Great Battleship, Stephen Carrington tells the story of the battleship that became one of the most famous warships ever built and one of the most hunted vessels in naval history. From the collapse of Imperial Germany after the First World War to the storm-lashed waters of the North Atlantic in May 1941, the Bismarck emerged as far more than a battleship. It became the product of German industrial ambition, naval rivalry, technological innovation, and the rapidly changing nature of modern warfare at sea.

Drawing on wartime records, naval reports, operational accounts, engineering history, and survivor testimony, Carrington follows the ship from its origins in the rearmament of the Kriegsmarine through its design, construction, sea trials, and final Atlantic operation. He explores the strategic pressures that shaped the battleship's creation, the immense industrial effort required to build it, and the dramatic campaign that culminated in the destruction of HMS Hood, the relentless pursuit across the Atlantic, and the final battle west of France. Along the way, the book examines the realities of battleship warfare in an age increasingly dominated by aircraft, reconnaissance networks, and industrialized global conflict.

More than the story of a single warship, this book examines the end of an era. Massive, heavily armored, and built to project national power across the oceans, Bismarck stood at the pinnacle of battleship design even as the age of the battleship itself began to fade. Its brief and violent career remains one of the defining naval stories of the Second World War and one of the enduring symbols of twentieth-century warfare at sea.

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