which included the Bismarck and the Tirpitz, was designed in the mid-1930s as the German answer to French naval expansion (especially France’s two Richelieu-class battleships). The Bismarck ...

A marvel of German engineering, the Bismarck-class battleship Tirpitz was designed to project power and challenge the British Royal Navy’s command of the High Seas. Displacing over 42,000 tons ...

The HMS Prince of Wales was a King George V-class battleship and the most advanced ... the signing of the Japanese surrender. The German Bismarck-class Tirpitz was a behemoth and a scourge of ...

Although it suffers from occasional poor wording, due certainly to poor translation, Bismarck: The Final Days of Germany's Greatest Battleship makes a very good read for anyone interested in naval ...

Launched in 1939 and commissioned in 1941, the Tirpitz was one of the largest battleships ever built ... The Tirpitz and the Bismarck were each meant to serve as commerce raiders, disrupting ...