{"product_id":"books-bismarck-by-iain-ballantyne","title":"Bismarck","description":"Published with new material in time for the 80th Anniversary of the sinking of the Bismarck, Iain Ballantyne's Bismarck: 24 Hours to Doom is the harrowing account of the epic mission to destroy the flagship of Hitler's navy.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e'No ship is invincible or so perfectly constructed it is invulnerable to sinking - not the Titanic, nor the Hood, and certainly not the Bismarck.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMay 1941: the world watches as the Royal Navy seeks retribution on the ship that sank the beloved HMS Hood. After a bloody chase lasting more than 1,700 miles, Britain's Home Fleet is finally closing in on the world's most powerful battleship. There will be a fight to the finish between more than 5,000 men of the Royal Navy and 2,600 servicemen of Hitler's Kriegsmarine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom tactical hits to shadowing ships, the mission to destroy the Bismarck was one of strategy and perseverance. In this tense and compelling narrative of the Action, we hear from the Royal Navy sailors who saw the combat up close.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe product of his interviews with surviving veterans, as well as transcripts, war diaries, and wireless signals, Ballantyne's Bismarck places the reader into the nail-biting naval combat of one of the Second World War's most dramatic events.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEighty years on from that epic mission, the testimonies of the brave men who fought on both sides provide fresh and heartwrenching insight into the real cost of naval warfare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003cem\u003eBISMARCK: 24 HOURS TO DOOM\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A \u003cstrong\u003epowerful and moving\u003c\/strong\u003e cinematic study devoted to what has to be the most dramatic event of the Second World War at sea - the last twenty-four hours alive of the German battleship \u003cem\u003eBismarck\u003c\/em\u003e. The use of the present tense to heighten immediacy is very effective and the \u003cstrong\u003etension carries through\u003c\/strong\u003e well; the first-hand accounts make you care about the men on both sides who found themselves trapped in such a ferocious holocaust.' \u003cem\u003e-\u003c\/em\u003e Julian Stockwin, author of the Thomas Kydd Series of naval adventures in the Age of Fighting Sail\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'By drawing on the first-hand experiences of veterans in the thick of the action, Iain Ballantyne has produced \u003cstrong\u003ea deeply researched and unputdownable \u003c\/strong\u003eaccount of the hunt for the Bismarck that is at once \u003cstrong\u003eauthoritative, insightful and highly readable\u003c\/strong\u003e.' - Rowland White, author of \u003cem\u003eHarrier 809\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eVulcan 607\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Bismarck: 24 Hours to Doom \u003c\/em\u003eis a superb read, \u003cstrong\u003eentertaining, informative and affecting\u003c\/strong\u003e . . . for a sense of what it was like to be there, \u003cstrong\u003ethis one is hard to beat\u003c\/strong\u003e.' - Matthew Willis, author of The Fortress of Malta series\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53507046375697,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781913099930.jpg?v=1778119869","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-bismarck-by-iain-ballantyne","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}