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Bismarck: 24 Hours to Doom

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Bismarck: 24 Hours to Doom

With extensive eyewitness accounts, the author of Killing the Bismarck vividly reconstructs the day British soldiers sank the infamous Nazi battleship.
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May 26, 1941. After a desperate chase lasting three days and more than seventeen hundred miles, Britainâ€™s Home Fleet would finally close in on the worldâ€™s most powerful battleship, the very ship that sank the Royal Navyâ€™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 Hitlerâ€™s Kriegsmarine.
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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.

Country	USA
Author	Iain Ballantyne
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781504059152
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Agora Books
Manufacturer	Agora Books
NumberOfPages	114
PublicationDate	2016-05-23
Publisher	Agora Books
ReleaseDate	2019-06-18
Studio	Agora Books

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