Bismarck: 24 Hours to Doom av Iain Ballantyne

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<p><strong>Now a major television documentary (Channel 4, 2021)</strong></p><h2>The epic mission to destroy Hitler¿s flagship.</h2><p><strong><em>¿Bismarck was now loose in the Atlantic ¿ we had to find and sink her.¿</em></strong></p><p>May, 1941. The most powerful battleship the world has ever seen, the German Navy¿s <em>Bismarck</em>, breaks out into the Atlantic to ravage Allied convoys. Together with the heavy cruiser <em>Prinz Eugen</em>, the <em>Bismarck</em> will seek to deliver a killer blow to Britain¿s war effort.</p><p>The British launch an all-or-nothing bid to sink her, with the Home Fleet and other naval units steaming hard from all points of the compass, straining every sinew to trap and destroy <em>Bismarck</em>. HMS <em>Hood</em>, the battlecruiser pride of the Royal Navy, is destroyed within eight minutes of engaging <em>Bismarck</em> on 24 May. However, the brand new battleship HMS <em>Prince of Wales</em> lands a pivotal blow on <em>Bismarck</em>, puncturing a fuel