Killing the Bismarck

“An excellent account . . . A suspenseful narrative that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.” — WWII History Magazine In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck , accompanied by heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen , broke out into the Atlantic to attack Allied shipping. The Royal Navy’s pursuit and subsequent destruction of Bismarck was an epic of naval warfare. In this new account of those dramatic events at the height of the Second World War, Iain Ballantyne draws extensively on the graphic e