H.M.S. Rodney: Warships of the Royal Navy

The biography of a British battleship, from an author with "a facility for rendering nonfiction into a narrative as brisk and readable as a novel" (HistoryNet).

The Second World War battleship HMS Rodney achieved lasting fame for her role in destroying the pride of Hitler's navy, the mighty Bismarck, in a thrilling duel. The Rodney, carrying the largest guns ever mounted in a British warship, finally succeeded in turning her adversary into twisted metal and so removed a major threat to th...