9789377940331 - the sinking of the bismarck: naval pride meets its end de conti, rafael (7 resultados)
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Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck slipped into the North Atlantic carrying the prestige of a regime and the hopes of a navy that knew it could not match the Royal Navy ship for ship. Within nine days, the ship had sunk Britain's…most celebrated battlecruiser, been crippled by a single torpedo from an obsolescent biplane, and gone to the bottom under the guns of a converging British fleet. The episode has been retold many times, often as melodrama. This book takes a different route. It reconstructs the campaign as a structured contest of detection, inference, and decision, in which naval strategy met the hard limits of fuel, damage, and weather, and in which symbolic ambition repeatedly collided with operational reality.Rafael Conti examines the Bismarck sortie as a case study in how modern navies actually work under pressure. He traces the reconnaissance networks that turned scattered sightings into a coherent picture, the signals environment that allowed British analysts to anticipate German movements, and the command decisions on both sides that converted tactical events into strategic cascades. He gives careful attention to logistics, to the role of carrier aviation in a still largely gun-centred navy, and to the propaganda machinery that framed the campaign for very different domestic audiences. Throughout, the book treats operational geography as a protagonist in its own right, shaping what commanders could see, attempt, and avoid.Written for general readers, students of strategy, and military analysts, the book offers more than a fresh telling of a famous story. It provides a transferable framework for reading any naval campaign as a sequence of interlocking decision cycles under uncertainty. Readers will come away with a clearer sense of why interception became possible, why withdrawal options narrowed so quickly, and why a single ship's fate became a propaganda event on both sides of the Channel. They will also gain a wider perspective on how prestige objectives distort strategic judgement, and on why the structural patterns visible in 1941 continue to shape maritime competition in our own century. The Bismarck's end is treated here not as a closed chapter but as a case study whose lessons remain unsettlingly current. 268 pp. Englisch.
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Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck slipped into the North Atlantic carrying the prestige of a regime and the hopes of a navy that knew it could not match the Royal Navy ship for ship. Within nine days, the ship had sunk Britain's most… celebrated battlecruiser, been crippled by a single torpedo from an obsolescent biplane, and gone to the bottom under the guns of a converging British fleet. The episode has been retold many times, often as melodrama. This book takes a different route. It reconstructs the campaign as a structured contest of detection, inference, and decision, in which naval strategy met the hard limits of fuel, damage, and weather, and in which symbolic ambition repeatedly collided with operational reality.Rafael Conti examines the Bismarck sortie as a case study in how modern navies actually work under pressure. He traces the reconnaissance networks that turned scattered sightings into a coherent picture, the signals environment that allowed British analysts to anticipate German movements, and the command decisions on both sides that converted tactical events into strategic cascades. He gives careful attention to logistics, to the role of carrier aviation in a still largely gun-centred navy, and to the propaganda machinery that framed the campaign for very different domestic audiences. Throughout, the book treats operational geography as a protagonist in its own right, shaping what commanders could see, attempt, and avoid.Written for general readers, students of strategy, and military analysts, the book offers more than a fresh telling of a famous story. It provides a transferable framework for reading any naval campaign as a sequence of interlocking decision cycles under uncertainty. Readers will come away with a clearer sense of why interception became possible, why withdrawal options narrowed so quickly, and why a single ship's fate became a propaganda event on both sides of the Channel. They will also gain a wider perspective on how prestige objectives distort strategic judgement, and on why the structural patterns visible in 1941 continue to shape maritime competition in our own century. The Bismarck's end is treated here not as a closed chapter but as a case study whose lessons remain unsettlingly current. 268 pp. Englisch.
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Buch. Condición: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck slipped into the North Atlantic carrying the prestige of a regime and the hopes of a navy that knew it could not match the Royal Navy ship for ship. Within nine days, the ship had sunk Britain's most…celebrated battlecruiser, been crippled by a single torpedo from an obsolescent biplane, and gone to the bottom under the guns of a converging British fleet. The episode has been retold many times, often as melodrama. This book takes a different route. It reconstructs the campaign as a structured contest of detection, inference, and decision, in which naval strategy met the hard limits of fuel, damage, and weather, and in which symbolic ambition repeatedly collided with operational reality.Rafael Conti examines the Bismarck sortie as a case study in how modern navies actually work under pressure. He traces the reconnaissance networks that turned scattered sightings into a coherent picture, the signals environment that allowed British analysts to anticipate German movements, and the command decisions on both sides that converted tactical events into strategic cascades. He gives careful attention to logistics, to the role of carrier aviation in a still largely gun-centred navy, and to the propaganda machinery that framed the campaign for very different domestic audiences. Throughout, the book treats operational geography as a protagonist in its own right, shaping what commanders could see, attempt, and avoid.Written for general readers, students of strategy, and military analysts, the book offers more than a fresh telling of a famous story. It provides a transferable framework for reading any naval campaign as a sequence of interlocking decision cycles under uncertainty. Readers will come away with a clearer sense of why interception became possible, why withdrawal options narrowed so quickly, and why a single ship's fate became a propaganda event on both sides of the Channel. They will also gain a wider perspective on how prestige objectives distort strategic judgement, and on why the structural patterns visible in 1941 continue to shape maritime competition in our own century. The Bismarck's end is treated here not as a closed chapter but as a case study whose lessons remain unsettlingly current.
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Buch. Condición: Neu. The Sinking of the Bismarck | Naval Pride Meets Its End | Rafael Conti | Buch | Englisch | 2026 | VIJ Books | EAN 9789377940331 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.
