- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Cerberus Publishing Ltd.; First edition (Jun 25 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1841450375
- ISBN-13: 978-1841450377
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 68 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,854,831 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When the Bismarck was sighted off Bergen, the news of her sailing quickly reached the Admiralty. The German squadron was intercepted in the Denmark strait. In the first bitter engagement HMS Hood, the pride of the Royal Navy, was blown-up and the new battleship HMS Prince of Wales damaged. From the moment of that disastrous first action it became a crucial call on the Royal Navy to destroy the German battleship. In this book, told from the point of view of the crew of the Bismarck, is described the hunt and the final kill; the end is a horrific portrayal of defeat at sea. Berthold tells this great and exciting story in human terms; he depicts the fears and courage of the crew as the end slowly, inevitably approaches; he recreates the thoughts of home that accompanied the sailors to their deaths; he speaks against the futility of all warfare. There will be few who will not be enthralled and moved by this vivid account of a great naval action seen, in this book, from the side of the defeated enemy.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Written from a defeatist viewpoint with only 6 pictures.,
By Ned Middleton (British professional underwater photo-journalist & author) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)
This review is from: The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Death of a Flagship (Hardcover)
Written by a former German soldier who. Apparently, became a successful political journalist, this account relies too heavily on descriptions of the most intimate thoughts of those sailors who served on the Bismarck during her final voyage.It is very easy for any journalist to decry the futility of all wars, but there is a certain quality of defeatism throughout this book from one who once served his own country proudly - albeit not in that country's navy. The problem associated with any attempt at trying to portray what this seaman or that officer might have been thinking at any crucial moment on board the Bismarck is the false assumption that all minds are alike and that "he would have said this (or that)" because that is what I would have said. In a curious work which may have been better received when it first appeared in 1958, this work adds nothing to the overall debate about the Bismarck's final voyage and is a book which becomes easy to discard before it is even finished. Only 6 photographs and one map are included. NM
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