The Hunt for Hitler's Warship
By: Patrick Bishop
Edition: First Regnery paperback edition.
Series: World War II collection
Publisher: Regnery History
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9781621572909
Subjects: HISTORY / Military / Naval; Great Britain. Royal Air Force; Tirpitz (Battleship); British Aerial operations; Officers; Great Britain; World War, 1939-1945; History; HISTORY / Military / World War II; Biography; German Naval operations
Work titles: Target Tirpitz
Description: "Winston Churchill called it 'the Beast.'  It was said to be unsinkable. More than thirty military operations failed to destroy it. Eliminating the Tirpitz, Hitler's mightiest warship, a 52,000-ton behemoth, became an Allied obsession. In The Hunt for Hitler's Warship, Patrick Bishop tells the epic story of the men who would not rest until the Tirpitz lay at the bottom of the sea. In November of 1944, with the threat to Russian supply lines increasing and Allied forces needing reinforcements in the Pacific, a raid as audacious as any Royal Air Force operation of the war was launched, under the command of one of Britain's greatest but least-known war heroes, Wing Commander Willie Tait. Patrick Bishop draws on decades of experience as a foreign war correspondent to paint a vivid picture of this historic clash of the Royal Air Force's Davids versus Hitler's Goliath of naval engineering. Readers will not be able to put down this account of one of World War II's most dramatic showdowns"--
Notes: Originally published: London : HarperPress, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Maps and Illustrations; title: Ranks of the Kriegsmarine; title: Prologue; title: The Belly of the Beast; title: Wilhelmshaven, Saturday, April 1, 1939; title: Swordfish; title: Trondheim; title: "A Wonderful Chance"; title: "A Somewhat Desperate Venture"; title: Smoke and Fog; title: Provoking Nemesis; title: "A Heart-Shaking" Decision; title: A Ha'Porth of Tar; title: The Iron Castle; title: Enter the Lion; title: Madmen; title: The Great Adventure; title: A "Bloody Great Bang"; title: North Cape; title: Tungsten; title: The Third Man; title: "My God, Mac, They've Had It Today"; title: Epilogue.