PURSUIT
PURSUIT
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"PURSUIT" The Chase and Sinking of the Battleship Bismarck. By Ludovic Kennedy. It was a head-on duel to the death in the frigid, merciless waters of the North Atlantic. On one side stood the pride of England’s navy, the battleship HMS Hood. Her adversary was the newly commissioned German battleship Bismarck, the largest warship afloat. When they finally met, their huge guns pulverizing the silence, spewing flame into the night sky, it was no contest. The Bismarck’s mighty 15-inch guns found their target almost immediately. The HMS Hood was quickly destroyed as the vessel disappeared beneath the turbulent Atlantic. With the Hood’s demise, the word went out to every British vessel at sea: “Sink the Bismarck!” Thus was launched the biggest sea hunt in naval history. A stirring true saga of the sea, a brisk picture in words recalling the death of a great ship and the men who loved and hated her. The author Ludovic Kennedy served as an officer on the British destroyer HMS Tartar one of the ships that pursued Bismarck. 1975 first edition Paperback. 249 pages, 2 maps, appendix and an index, no photos.
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