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German Capital Ships and Raiders in World War II: From Graf Spee to Bismarck, 1939-1941 (Naval Staff Histories)
German Capital Ships and Raiders in World War II From Graf Spee to Bismarck 19391941 - Naval Staff Histories Author:Eric Grove This is a compendium of seven Naval Staff Histories which deals with operations by major German surface units as follows: the destruction of the pocket battleship Graf Spee, by three Royal Navy light cruisers off the River Plate; the hunt for the Bismark; the Battle of the North Cape when Scharnhorst was sunk by HMS Duke of York in a snowy, nigh... more »t action; the escape of the Gneisenau and the Scharnhorst up the English Channel through British defences in the "Channel Dash"; the series of attacks on Tirpitz by aircraft carriers; long-range bombers and midget submarines in her Norwegian lair; and the predations of disguised merchant raiders such as the notorious Pinguin.« less