Tirpitz: The Life and Death of Germany's Last Great Battleship
Daniel Knowles
Apr 2018 · Fonthill Media
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Referred to by Winston Churchill as `the Beast', `Tirpitz' was Germany's last great battleship and was one of the largest and heaviest battleships ever constructed by a European navy. Sister ship to the infamous `Bismarck', `Tirpitz' may be referred to as `the Lonely Queen of the North'. Laid down in 1936 and commissioned in 1941, `Tirpitz' spent most of her operational life lurking as a `fleet in being' amongst the fjords of Norway. Such was the threat posed to the sea lanes, and with that the Allied war effort, and so obsessed was Churchill and the Admiralty with her destruction that twenty-four operations, ranging from the foolhardy to the ridiculous were undertaken against her. It was in November 1944 that the `Tirpitz' was finally sunk, not by the Royal Navy, but by the aircraft of RAF Bomber Command. Using a variety of sources this book begins by looking at the military and political situation in Germany that led to the decision to build the `Tirpitz' before going on to analyse the life and death of Germany's last great battleship.
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Brian Bunch
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October 24, 2019
The author kept going off on tangents that had nothing to do with the Tirpitz, and rarely shared accounts from crew except in passing (but spent pages on a post-war prank war between RAF squadrons?). The editing, however, is the book's great downfall- truly awful work done there. They clearly used spell check and didn't bother looking for anything else. There's far better books on the subject matter, sadly.
A Google user
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March 14, 2019
ONE OF THE BEST BOOK I'VE EVER READ🤩
About the author
Daniel Knowles was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and has been interested in history since the age of eight. The main focus of his historical interest is the Second World War. In 2016 he graduated with an honours degree in History and Politics from the University of Northumbria. His dissertation was written on the changing perceptions to the wartime role played by RAF Bomber Command.
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