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Battleship Bismarck
William H. Garzke
Robert O. Dulin
William Jurens
James Cameron
其他書名
A Design and Operational History
出版
Pen and Sword
, 2019-05-30
主題
History / Military / Naval
History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General
Transportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / History
ISBN
1526759756
9781526759757
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4k8IEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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“A complete operational history of the
Bismarck . . .
with period photos [and] underwater photography of the wreck, allowing a forensic analysis of the damage.” —
Seapower
This new book offers a forensic analysis of the design, operation, and loss of Germany’s greatest battleship, drawing on survivors’ accounts and the authors’ combined decades of experience in naval architecture and command at sea. Their investigation into every aspect of this battleship is informed by painstaking research, including extensive interviews and correspondence with the ship’s designers and the survivors of the battle of the Denmark Strait and
Bismarck
’s final battle.
Albert Schnarke, the former gunnery officer of
Tirpitz
,
Bismarck
’s sister ship, aided the authors greatly by translating and supplying manuscript materials from those who participated in the design and operations. Survivors of
Bismarck
’s engagements contributed to this comprehensive study including D.B.H. Wildish, RN, damage control officer aboard HMS
Prince of Wales
, who located photographs of battle damage to his ship. After the wreck was discovered in 1989, the authors served as technical consultants to Dr. Robert Ballard, who led three trips to the site. Filmmaker and explorer James Cameron has also contributed a chapter, giving a comprehensive overview of his deep-sea explorations on
Bismarck
and sharing his team’s remarkable photos of the wreck. The result of nearly six decades of research and collaboration, this is an “encyclopedic and engrossing” account (
Naval Historical Foundation
) of the events surrounding one of the most epic naval battles of World War II. And
Battleship Bismarck
finally resolves some of the major questions around her career, not least the most profound one of all: Who sank the
Bismarck
, the British or the Germans?