
Killing the Bismarck
Destroying the Pride of Hitler's Fleet
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Traber Burns
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Iain Ballantyne
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 the 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 eyewitness testimony of veterans to construct a thrilling story, mainly from the point of view of the British battleships, cruisers, and destroyers involved.
He describes the tense atmosphere as cruisers play a lethal cat-and-mouse game, shadowing the Bismarck in the icy Denmark Strait. We witness the shocking destruction of the British battle cruiser HMS Hood, in which all but three of her ship's complement were killed, an event that fueled pursuing Royal Navy warships, including the battered battleship Prince of Wales, with a thirst for revenge. While Swordfish torpedo bombers try desperately to cripple the Bismarck, we sail in destroyers on their own daring torpedo attacks, battling mountainous seas. Finally the author takes us into the last showdown, as battleships Rodney and King George V, supported by cruisers Norfolk and Dorsetshire, destroy the pride of Hitler's fleet.
This vivid, superbly researched account portrays this epic saga through the eyes of so-called ordinary sailors caught up in extraordinary events. Killing the Bismarck is an outstanding book, conveying the horror and majesty of war at sea in all its cold brutality and awesome power.
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Great British story telling
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Pretty good
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Good history story
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Unknown history
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I liked the inclusion of the epilogue in which the fate of the victorious ships, some of which fate was very heroic and also very sad. I liked the inclusion of details of the action of the destroyers, often overlooked. Good to end the story on the gathering of British and German survivors in 1974.
The narrator should have studied the proper pronunciation, in particular of Prinz Eugen which was repeated many times (it’s not pronounced ‘you gain’.
Also, Heinkel III’s are not “Heinkel 3’s”.
Decent narrative
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The book is primarily made up from many different eyewitness accounts. This makes some of the information factually untrue such as one sailor claiming HMS Rodney slid sideways in the water when she fired a salvo. A bit of math tells you it's so infinitesimal that it can't be felt. Other instances are German sailors convinced they saw/heard torpedoes from HMS Hood. This is debated by some historians as not making any sense at all because of distance and timing. When reading/listening to this book, one must remember it's told less as "this is fact" and more "this is what the people that were there had to say about it."
I found it very exciting overall, despite well knowing the outcome. There were many tidbits of information I did not know - some quite entertaining such as how HMS Rodney lost it's aiming computer because a Marine stuck his boot through the machine mid-battle.
Most especially, now that this title is part of Plus, I highly recommend it - but it would have been worth buying.
Really fantastic book!
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Good WW2 account
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Thrilling story brought home thru eyes of participants
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Good but not Spectacular
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Fascinating
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