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PublisherCase Mate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC
ISBN-101935149180
ISBN-139781935149187
eBay Product ID (ePID)77181489
Product Key Features
Book TitleTirpitz : the Life and Death of Germany's Last Super Battleship
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
TopicMilitary / World War II, Military / Naval
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorNiklas Zetterling, Michael Tamelander
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2010-502535
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsThe authors have woven Tirpitz's story quite well and in doing so explain the strategic implications and dramatic battles surrounding the super battleship. Their book is an excellent study of an aspect of naval strategy the Germans used with such aplomb....a welcome addition to my library., ... accurately synthesizes the available work on Allied efforts to destroy the battleship into one entertaining read... comes alive in its descriptions...well organized..., ...effectively weaves the story of the battleship into the pattern of the war...A very good account of the Tirpitz and of the naval war in the North Atlantic and Norwegian waters.|9781935149187|, ...a thorough treatment, including material from interviews with survivors of their sinkings and the impact they had on the naval war in the Atlantic.
Dewey Decimal940.545943
Table Of ContentPreface Prologue Nordmeer "A Wonderful Opportunity" The War at Sea--The Initial Years New Weapons, Indirect Strategies Operation Chariot The Arctic Convoys PQ15 and PQ16 Prelude to Operation Rösselsprung PQ17--The Tragedy "Convoy is to Scatter" Operation Title--The Human Torpedos Wunderland PQ18--The Battling Convoy Shetlands-Larsen and the Fishing Boat "Have you any use for peats?" The Shifting Balance The Midget Submarines Sizilien--The One Offensive Operation Source Begins Ostfront Tungsten The Russian Adventure Operation Obviate Catechism The Tirpitz Sinks The Tirpitz and the War in the Arctic Notes Archival Records Published Sources
SynopsisThe story of the battleship Tirpitz--Bismarck's sister ship--and the desperate Allied efforts to destroy it . . . After the Royal Navy's bloody high seas campaign to kill the mighty Bismarck, the Allies were left with an uncomfortable truth--the German behemoth had a twin sister. Slightly larger than her sibling, the Tirpitz was equally capable of destroying any other battleship afloat, as well as wreak havoc on Allied troop and supply convoys. For the next three and a half years the Allies launched a variety of attacks to remove Germany's last serious surface threat. The Germans, for their part, had learned not to pit their super battleships against the strength of the entire Home Fleet outside the range of protecting aircraft. Thus they kept Tirpitz hidden within fjords along the Norwegian coast, like a Damocles Sword hanging over the Allies' maritime jugular, forcing the British to assume the offensive. This strategy paid dividends in July 1942 when the Tirpitz merely stirred from its berth, compelling the Royal Navy to abandon a Murmansk-bound convoy called PQ-17 in order to confront the leviathan. The convoy was then ripped apart by the Luftwaffe and U-boats, while the Tirpitz returned to its fjord. In 1943, the British launched a flotilla of midget submarines against the Tirpitz, losing all six of the subs while only lightly damaging the battleship. Aircraft attacked repeatedly, from carriers and both British and Soviet bases, suffering losses--including an escort carrier--while proving unable to completely knock out the mighty warship. Trying an indirect approach, the British launched one of the war's most daring commando raids--at St. Nazaire--in order to knock out the last drydock in Europe capable of servicing the Tirpitz. Of over 600 commandos and sailors in the raid, more than half were lost during an all-night battle that succeeded, at least, in knocking out the drydock. It was not until November 1944 that the Tirpitz finally succumbed to British aircraft armed with 10,000-lb Tallboy bombs, the ship capsizing at last with the loss of 1,000 sailors. In this book military historians Niklas Zetterling and Michael Tamelander, authors of Bismarck: The Final Days of Germany's Greatest Battleship, illuminate the strategic implications and dramatic battles surrounding the Tirpitz, a ship that may have had greater influence on the course of World War II than her more famous sister., After the Royal Navy's bloody high seas campaign to kill the mighty Bismarck, the Allies were left with an uncomfortable truth--the German behemoth had a twin sister. Slightly larger than her sibling, the Tirpitz was equally capable of destroying any other battleship afloat, as well as wreak havoc on Allied troop and supply convoys. For the next three and a half years the Allies launched a variety of attacks to remove Germany's last serious surface threat. The Germans, for their part, had learned not to pit their super battleships against the strength of the entire Home Fleet outside the range of protecting aircraft. Thus they kept Tirpitz hidden within fjords along the Norwegian coast, like a Damocles Sword hanging over the Allies' maritime jugular, forcing the British to assume the offensive. This strategy paid dividends in July 1942 when the Tirpitz merely stirred from its berth, compelling the Royal Navy to abandon a Murmansk-bound convoy called PQ-17 in order to confront the leviathan. The convoy was then ripped apart by the Luftwaffe and U-boats, while the Tirpitz returned to its fjord. In 1943, the British launched a flotilla of midget submarines against the Tirpitz, losing all six of the subs while only lightly damaging the battleship. Aircraft attacked repeatedly, from carriers and both British and Soviet bases, suffering losses--including an escort carrier--while proving unable to completely knock out the mighty warship. Trying an indirect approach, the British launched one of the war's most daring commando raids--at St. Nazaire--in order to knock out the last drydock in Europe capable of servicing the Tirpitz. Of over 600 commandos and sailors in the raid, more than half were lost during an all-night battle that succeeded, at least, in knocking out the drydock. It was not until November 1944 that the Tirpitz finally succumbed to British aircraft armed with 10,000-lb Tallboy bombs, the ship capsizing at last with the loss of 1,000 sailors. In this book military historians Niklas Zetterling and Michael Tamelander, authors of Bismarck: The Final Days of Germany's Greatest Battleship, illuminate the strategic implications and dramatic battles surrounding the Tirpitz, a ship that may have had greater influence on the course of World War II than her more famous sister. AUTHOR: Niklas Zetterling, a researcher at the Swedish Defense College is most recently co-authored of The Korsun Pocket: The Encirclement and Breakout of a German Army in the East, 1944. Together with Michael Tamelander, a part-time military author, they have written books about the battleship Tirpitz, the D-Day landings and the 1940 campaign in Norway. ILLUSTRATIONS 16 page photo section
LC Classification NumberD772
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- 07. Jul. 2021
Story of one of the last great battleships.
The author has the ability to make the reader feel that he/she is actually in the scenes he depicts. Plus, of course, the story is historically factual and perhaps more intriguing than many novels.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 03. Apr. 2023
The book is ful of battle details.
Thebook was brand new and arrived as staaate, ON TIME. This book was a good addition to both books, Bismarck and Schorthost which also recomend. The book is full of details fromtboth the British and German sides. Plenty of adventurious details of the various things the Briish tried and the defeces the Germans tried. I hasd expected a rip roaring sea battle. Most of the action was in Norwegan fiord. I recommend the book.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 08. Apr. 2020
A great read
Written well. Talks about of the many attempts to sink Tirpitz. How she was a threat to vital convoys headed for Russia. Gave overall layout of Germany's naval strategy in the north. I loved it.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 16. Nov. 2022
Good title
I love history and it is great to read. It is a sister warship to the Bismarck ship.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
