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The Mighty Hood - The Battleship that Challenged the Bismarck (Paperback)
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The Mighty Hood - The Battleship that Challenged the Bismarck (Paperback)
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The story of the HMS Hood, the last great warship of the British
Royal Navy, told by the bestselling author of Hannibal. When it was
launched in 1918, the HMS Hood was the flagship of the Royal Navy.
As a battle cruiser, "The Mighty Hood" was fast enough to evade
enemy cruiser ships and powerful enough to destroy them. But for
all the Hood's might, it had one fatal flaw: armor had been
sacrificed for speed. In 1941, the Hood confronted the legendary
German warship Bismarck. A salvo from the enemy penetrated the
Hood's ammunition magazine, destroying the British ship and killing
all but three of its crew. The brutal defeat marked the end of the
Royal Navy's dominance. But it also inspired Winston Churchill's
vow to sink the Bismarck--a vow that in time was fulfilled. Through
oral history and documentary research, Ernle Bradford chronicles
the Hood's career from design to demise, with colorful insight into
life aboard the ship as well as its broader historical
significance.
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