Hunting Tirpitz

Naval Operations Against Bismarck's Sister Ship

Edited by G H Bennett

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Publication date:

30 April 2012

Length of book:

304 pages

Publisher

University of Plymouth Press

ISBN-13: 9781841023106

In late 1944, the German battleship Tirpitz was sunk by RAF Bomber Command. While it was the RAF that delivered the final coup de grace, it was the Royal Navy, from 1942 to 1944, that had contained, crippled and neutralised the German battleship in a series of actions marked by innovation, boldness and bravery. From daring commando raids on the coast of France, to the use of midget submarines in the fjords of Norway and devastating aerial attacks by the Fleet Air Arm, the Royal Navy pursued Tirpitz to her eventual destruction."