On May 18, 1941, the German battleship Bismarck began its first ever combat mission. It was the most powerful ship in Europe at the time, and was said to be the "invincible" pride of Hitler's navy.

Although it suffers from occasional poor wording, due certainly to poor translation, Bismarck: The Final Days of Germany's Greatest Battleship makes a very good read for anyone interested in naval ...

The Bismarck’s terrifying effectiveness led the Royal Navy to make the battleship’s destruction their main goal in the early phase of the war. Long before the rise of Adolf Hitler’s blood ...