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Tirpitz

The Life and Death of Germany's Last Super Battleship

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Whilst the Kriegsmarine's surface fleet, restricted for much of the period after 1919 by the terms of the Versailles Treaty, was relatively small in comparison to the Royal Navy, it did possess a number of highly potent battleships and other capital vessels that could - and did - pose a major threat to British interests in the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean. Amongst the most powerful were the two battleships - the Bismarck and the Tirpitz. The awesome power of the former was demonstrated by its destruction of HMS Hood in May 1941, although it was itself to be sunk shortly afterward. For Royal Navy planners and tacticians, the close monitoring of the other German capital ships was a pressing need, particularly if the Germans were ever to pose a serious threat to the all-important convoys across the Atlantic and to Russia. Moreover considerable effort went into trying to neutralize the threat either by keeping the German warships penned into harbor or by sinking them.

©2009 Niklas Zetterling, Michael Tamelander and Norstedts Forlagsgrupp AB. Translation copyright 2009 Niklas Zetterling (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Armed Forces Europe Germany Military Naval Forces War Russia Royal Navy Submarine Air Force
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Disappointing. Disappointed that this story was narrated by an American in the manner of ‘ how the Americans won the war’
No offence to Pete Larkin as he is a brilliant reader and did his best with the material to hand.
It’s not his fault the US and Russians didn’t get off their butts until the opposition took a gigantic dump in their backyards.
Still this was an essentially British show and should of been told by someone from this side of the pond.
Not half as good as the Bismarck, a rehash and
didn’t really tell me anything new.

Somewhat Informative but not entertaining

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You would have thought that the reader would have been coached on the German and Norwegian names and terms. Not here, making this book laughable in places!

Fascinating book - shame about the narrator

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