Название: The Sinking of the Scharnhorst: A Factual Account From the German Viewpoint
Автор: Fritz Otto Busch
Издательство: Futura Publications Limited
Год: 1974
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 196
Размер: 18,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

On Christmas Day, 1943, blinded by the fury of an Arctic blizzard, encircled by enemy destroyers, the German battleship Scharnhorst fought for her life. The luck of the Scharnhorst had become a legend. In 1942 she had slipped unscathed through the Channel under the very bows of the British fleet to harry the Arctic convoy routes. The British convoy which sailed for Murmansk on Christmas Eve, 1943, seemed a perfect target for another lightning raid. In fact it was a trap to lure the battleship into the open and then destroy her. This is the story of the Scharnhorst's dramatic sortie from her Norwegian lair, rhe story of a battle fought with Dutstanding courage against impossible odds until the most feared of all Hitler's battleships sank at last off North Cape.

Название: The Sinking of the Prince of Wales & Repulse: The End of the Battleship Era
Автор: Martin Middlebrook, Patrick Mahoney
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844150755
Год: 2014
Формат: MOBI
Страниц: 366
Размер: 2,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

On the third day of the war with Japan, two Royal Navy capital ships were sunk off Malaya by air torpedo attack. They had not requested the air support that could have saved them and 840 men died in the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser HMS Repulse. The authors re-create for the reader not only what happened, but also what it was like for the men involved.