The Deadly Hunt by William L. Shirer, as it name suggests,
is a hunt for Nazi Germany’s most powerful ship afloat, Battleship Bismarck.
This book follows in the wake of Europe’s LARGEST warship at the time, German
Battleship Bismarck. In this book, I visited, the Bismarck’s first engagement
with the German cruiser, Prince Eugen, against HMS Hood, Great Britain’s
biggest warship afloat, and HMS Prince of Wales, Bismarck’s second engagement
against “Swordfish” torpedo bomber biplanes from HMS Victorious, and then the
crippling of Bismarck via biplane dropped torpedo a few days later. And finally
I watched Bismarck be pounded into a floating hunk of metal by HMS King George
V, and HMS Rodney. The book also tells of the British’s Royal Navy’s
perspective of the maiden voyage of an “indestructible” German Battleship. It
tells of mistakes made by both German Admiral Günther Lütjens, and British Admiral
John Tovey, and the results of those mistakes. I would recommend this book for
anyone who likes to read about World War II, sea-battles, or just warships in
general.
Book Review by Garrett N.
this is a book I'm excited to read, I've always had a rather large interest in weapons of war and this brings out the extreme fascination I have for them. this reminds of a small TV series called Engine, it looked at different weapons of war through time from the catapult to the Bismarck itself.
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