The Hunt for Hitler's Warship

The Hunt for Hitler's Warship

by Patrick Bishop
The Hunt for Hitler's Warship

The Hunt for Hitler's Warship

by Patrick Bishop

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Overview

Winston Churchill called it "the Beast." It was said to be unsinkable. More than thirty military operations failed to destroy it. Eliminating the Tirpitz, Hitler's mightiest warship, a 52,000-ton behemoth, became an Allied obsession.

In The Hunt for Hitler's Warship, Patrick Bishop tells the epic story of the men who would not rest until the Tirpitz lay at the bottom of the sea. In November of 1944, with the threat to Russian supply lines increasing and Allied forces needing reinforcements in the Pacific, a raid as audacious as any Royal Air Force operation of the war was launched, under the command of one of Britain's greatest but least-known war heroes, Wing Commander Willie Tait.

Patrick Bishop draws on decades of experience as a foreign war correspondent to paint a vivid picture of this historic clash of the Royal Air Force's Davids versus Hitler's Goliath of naval engineering. Readers will not be able to put down this account of one of World War II's most dramatic showdowns.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781621570691
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Publication date: 04/08/2013
Series: World War II Collection
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 416
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Patrick Bishop is one of Britain’s leading military historians with his critically acclaimed and bestselling books Fighter Boys, Bomber Boys, 3 Para, and Ground Truth. Born in London and a graduate of Wimbledon College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he worked for the Evening Standard, the Observer, the Sunday Times, and as a reporter on Channel Four News before joining the Telegraph. He spent more than twenty years as a foreign correspondent reporting from war zones around the world. He lives with his family in London.

Table of Contents

Maps and Illustrations ix

Ranks of the Kriegsmarine xx

Prologue xxi

Chapter 1 The Belly of the Beast 1

Chapter 2 Wilhelmshaven, Saturday, April 1, 1939 9

Chapter 3 Swordfish 19

Chapter 4 Trondheim 43

Chapter 5 "A Wonderful Chance" 67

Chapter 6 "A Somewhat Desperate Venture" 89

Chapter 7 Smoke and Fog 107

Chapter 8 Provoking Nemesis 125

Chapter 9 "A Heart-Shaking" Decision 147

Chapter 10 A Ha'Porth of Tar 163

Chapter 11 The Iron Castle 191

Chapter 12 Enter the Lion 207

Chapter 13 Madmen 227

Chapter 14 The Great Adventure 255

Chapter 15 A "Bloody Great Bang" 269

Chapter 16 North Cape 291

Chapter 17 Tungsten 311

Chapter 18 The Third Man 335

Chapter 19 "My God Mac, They've Had It Today" 361

Epilogue 391

Acknowledgments 397

Notes 399

Index 413

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