Known for its impressive firepower and size, the Bismarck was tasked with blocking Allied shipping during WWII. -However ... designed in the mid-1930s as the German answer to French naval ...

What You Need to Know: In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck proved ... The relatively small size of Germany’s World War II navy made it incapable of taking on the British and French ...

Pp. xvi, 472. Illus., maps, tables, appends., notes, biblio., index. $59.95 paper. ISBN: 190603303X. A rare work in English on the Danish-German war of 1864, which, although short (272 days), had ...