Target Tirpitz
Subtitle: x-craft, agents and dambusters - the epic quest to destroy Hitler's mightiest warship
By: Patrick Bishop
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: ISIS
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780753153161; 9780753153178
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; British Aerial operations; Naval operations; Submarine; British Naval operations; Large type books; Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945; Opérations aériennes britanniques; Opérations sous-marines; Livres en gros caractères; Large print books; Aerial Military operations; British; Naval Military operations; Tirpitz (Battleship)
Description: Tirpitz was the pride of Hitler's navy, the most powerful battleship in Europe. To Churchill she was "the Beast", a menace to Britain's supply lines. An "Iron Castle" that could withstand any bomb or torpedo. She haunted the imaginations of the men directing Britain's war. Plan after plan was hatched to send her to the bottom. But in the end it was Bomber Command who finished her off. In 1944, Wing Commander James "Willie" Tait, led Lancasters from 617 Squadron - the famous "Dambusters"--And 9 Squadron on a series of raids which ended with the destruction of Hitler's Tirpitz.