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Battleship Tirpitz - Naval History Special Edition (Paperback)
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Battleship Tirpitz - Naval History Special Edition (Paperback)
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Building upon the expertise of the authors and historians of the
Naval Institute Press, the Naval History Special Editions are
designed to offer studies of the key vessels, battles, and events
of armed conflict. Using an image-heavy, magazine-style format,
these Special Editions should appeal to scholars, enthusiasts, and
general readers alike. In 1939 the battleship was the queen of the
seas. Battleships were designed to project power. They were the
biggest and most powerful ships afloat, and the yardsticks by which
the world judged naval strength. Within this context, the German
battleship Tirpitz (sister ship of Bismarck) was one of the most
effective instruments of naval power ever deployed. The British
called her "The Beast". She spent the greater part of the Second
World War tucked away in isolated fjords north of the Arctic
Circle--where she became known as, "The Lonely Queen of the North."
She sortied only three times and never fired her guns at an enemy
warship. Yet, against this menace the British exerted unequaled
effort. At all times they kept a pair of modern battleships
standing by to face her should she sail; they built mini-submarines
that could operate in the waters of the fjords; they repeatedly
massed aircraft carrier strike forces in futile efforts to knock
her from the war. At last, they invented massive ordnance--the
Tallboy bomb, the largest non-nuclear explosive device of the war.
Sending their heaviest bombers against her, and after three years
of sustained effort, the Beast was sunk. The remarkable career of
this remarkable ship is the subject of this authoritative and
heavily illustrated Special Edition. It considers Tirpitz's design,
her construction, her historical context and all of her operations.
The power of this individual ship and the influence she exerted on
the entire course of the war makes for an enlightening
demonstration of the sometimes very unexpected way sea power can be
expressed.
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