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Pursuit, The Sinking of the Bismarck

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Jacket photo probably by the author Ilustrador. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear, chipping, creasing, short closed tears and small loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed and bruised, some yellowing to back jacket and inside flaps, not price clipped (£3.50), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 254pp, map endpapers. In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck headed out into the North Atlantic to raid Allied shipping. She was accompanied by the Prinz Eugen and her pursuit was an epic of naval warfare. Found and shadowed by British cruisers, she was engaged by the Hood and the Prince of Wales. Within minutes, she had sunk the Hood, pride of the Royal Navy, and damaged the latter. The next few days were agonising for both sides. The Bismarck was attacked by Swordfish planes of the Fleet Air Arm, lost then relocated, attacked once more and disabled. Now there was no choice for the pride of the Kriegsmarine but to run for safety and the French port of Brest. But then the battleships Rodney and King George V caught up with her. By author, broadcaster and human rights activist Sir Ludovic Kennedy (1919-2009). Ludovic Kennedy followed his father into the Royal Navy, during WWII. He served as an officer on destroyers, mostly in the same northern seas. His ship HMS Tartar, was one of those that pursued the battleship Bismarck, following the Battle of the Denmark Strait. He witnessed the final battle, until Bismarck was ablaze and its crew began to abandon ship, but shortage of fuel forced Tartar to depart for home before Bismarck sank. Quite a scarce book. Nº de ref. del artículo: 012033

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