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Free Download Marco Santarini, "Bismarck and Hood: The Battle of the Denmark Strait – A Technical Analysis for a New Perspective"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1781556334, 1781552312 | PDF | pages: 202 | 8.7 mb
The legendary Battle of the Denmark Strait, which saw the mighty German battleship Bismarck sink Britain’s HMS Hood in an epic duel of the titans, has been dogged by controversy to this day. Was the doomed HMS Hood really sunk by a shell that penetrated her wooden decks to explode in one of her magazine compartments? Others believe that Bismarck’s fortunate shell detonated in Hood’s cordite supply – the powder that propelled 82-lbs shells some staggering 17,700 yards – suggesting that damage examined on the wreck indicates a more distinct explosion. Or was the Hood’s destructive and violent demise a new, and until now, unexplained act of war? The sinking of HMS Hood on Empire Day, 24 May 1941, resulted in the single largest loss of life for the Royal Navy during the Second World War: 1,415 lives were lost. There were absolutely no traces of any crewmen save three survivors. Bismarck and Hood: The Battle of the Denmark Strait – A Technical Analysis is a controversial and electric study of this infamous battle. The author, a rear admiral in the Italian Navy, is a leading expert in gunnery and his book, a work of over two decades of study, further investigates this battle in an attempt to attain a more credible explanation. The events and tactics leading up to the battle are explained within their various contexts and a cinematic and ballistic model of the battle was developed, essential for a statistical analysis of Hood’s sinking. Certainly, no one will ever be able to confirm what exactly happened in the Denmark Strait on that fateful day, but this fascinating book disposes of myths and falsehoods to give a more definitive and realistic interpretation of this iconic battle between HMS Hood and Bismarck.

Free Download I Sank the Bismarck By John Moffat
2009 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 059306352X | EPUB | 2 MB
The memoirs of a Second World War bomber pilot and the sinking of the Bismarck warship in May 1941.Along with twelve other brave pilots, John Moffat took down the largest warship of its time. A warship that had destroyed the famed HMS Hood within minutes, and was able to withstand anything the British military threw at it. These men, in their Swordfish, managed to avoid the fearful anti-aircraft fire and launch their torpedoes. One of them hit, holing the German warship.This is John Moffat’s story, of how as a young man he experienced first-hand the titanic struggle for naval supremacy, the cramped cabins and meagre rations of WWII, the mind-numbing patrols over hundreds of miles of ocean and the adrenalin and fear of being in a fragile aircraft sought out by gunfire. As the only surviving member of the mission, John Moffat tells of everything that led him to be able to say, "I sank the Bismarck."From the Trade Paperback edition.

Free Download Angus Konstam – Hunt the Bismarck (Great Naval Battles 1)
Naval Institute Press | 2003 | ISBN: 1591143950 | English | 100 pages | PDF | 115.11 MB
1This first title in the new Great Naval Battles series profiles one of the most dramatic naval episodes of World War II-the pursuit of the battleship Bismarck. After sinking the HMS Hood and heavily damaging the new battleship Prince of Wales, the Bismarck broke out into the waters of the North Atlantic in a desperate run for freedom. Pounded from the air and surrounded by ships of the British fleet, the German ship went down in an encounter that is still studied and debated to this day. Noted curator and author Angus Konstam draws on historical records as well as the recently discovered wreck of the Bismarck to offer a fresh overview of the legendary chase. More than one-hundred illustrations and maps accompany the text. The book serves as an excellent introduction to a series sure to be appreciated for its presentation of the ships, commanders, battle arenas, and repercussions of the most important naval conflicts of World War II. 100 illustrations. Maps.

Free Download In Koli Jean Bofane, Marjolijn de Jager, "Congo Inc.: Bismarck’s Testament"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0253031907 | EPUB | pages: 214 | 7.4 mb
To the sound of machine gun fire and the smell of burning flesh, award-winning author In Koli Jean Bofane leads readers on a perilous, satirical journey through the civil conflict and political instability that have been the logical outcome of generations of rapacious multinational corporate activity, corrupt governance, widespread civil conflict, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation in Africa. Isookanga, a Congolese Pygmy, grows up in a small village with big dreams of becoming rich. His vision of the world is shaped by his exploits in Raging Trade, an online game where he seizes control of the world’s natural resources by any means possible: high-tech weaponry, slavery, and even genocide. Isookanga leaves his sleepy village to make his fortune in the pulsating capital Kinshasa, where he joins forces with street children, warlords, and a Chinese victim of globalization in this blistering novel about capitalism, colonialism, and the world haunted by the ghosts of Bismarck and Leopold II. Told with just enough levity to make it truly heartbreaking, Congo Inc. is a searing tale about ecological, political, and economic failure.

Free Download Jim Crossley – Bismarck: The Epic Chase
Pen & Sword | 2010 | ISBN: 1848842503 | English | 192 pages | PDF | 58.56 MB
When the German Battleship Bismarck was commissioned in 1940 she was one of the fastest and most powerful ships afloat. To the Royal Navy and the security of Allied shipping in the Atlantic she posed an enormous threat – she must be destroyed. When she broke out into the Atlantic in 1941, some of Britain’s most powerful ships were sent to pursue and sink her.

Free Download Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe by Rachel Chrastil
English | September 5, 2023 | ISBN: 1541604091 | 512 pages | PDF | 46 Mb
A "vivid and informative" (Daily Telegraph) new history of the war that toppled the French Empire, unified Germany, and set Europe on the path to World War I

Free Download Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe, UK Edition by Rachel Chrastil
English | September 12th, 2023 | ISBN: 0241419190 | 512 pages | True EPUB | 71.78 MB
Less than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the Prussian army had devastated its opponents, captured Napoleon III and wrecked all assumptions about Europe’s pecking order. Other countries looked on in helpless amazement. Pushing aside further French resistance, a new German Empire was proclaimed (as a deliberate humiliation) in the Palace of Versailles, leaving the French to face civil war in Paris, reparations and the loss of Alsace and Lorraine.

Free Download Robert J. Winklareth – The Bismarck Chase: New Light on a Famous Engagement
Naval Institute Press | 1999 | ISBN: 1557501831 | English | 196 pages | PDF | 119.02 MB
On 24 May 1941 one of the most famous naval engagements of World War II-the sinking of the battlecruiser HMS Hood by the German battleship Bismarck-took place in the Denmark Strait and people have been arguing about it ever since. In this book a professional defense analyst offers an original and highly credible explanation of the battle based on extensive computer modeling. He argues that instead of pursuing a straight course throughout the battle as previously thought, Bismarck and Prinz Eugen made two major course changes that the commander of the Hood had to respond to. He explains how the gunners aboard the Hood initially mistook the smaller Prinz Eugen for the much-larger Bismarck and fired several salvoes before they realized their error. Photographs of Bismarck taken from Prinz Eugen during the battle are, for the first time, printed in their proper orientation and chronological sequence, correcting earlier misinterpretations of the actions.

Free Download Stefan Draminski – The Battleship Bismarck
Osprey Publishing | 2018 | ISBN: 1472828887 | English | 338 pages | PDF | 130.31 MB
Anatomy of the Ship

Free Download Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWG93PQ1 | 2023 | 17 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 508 MB
Author: Rachel Chrastil
Narrator: Sarah Borges
A new history of the war that toppled the French Empire, unified Germany, and set Europe on the path to World War I. Among the conflicts that convulsed Europe during the nineteenth century, none was more startling and consequential than the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. Deliberately engineered by Prussian chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the war succeeded in shattering French supremacy, deposing Napoleon III, and uniting a new German Empire. But it also produced brutal military innovations and a precarious new imbalance of power that together set the stage for the devastating world wars of the next century. In Bismarck’s War, historian Rachel Chrastil chronicles events on the battlefield in full, while also showing in intimate detail how the war reshaped and blurred the boundaries between civilian and soldier as the fighting swept across France. The result is the definitive history of a transformative conflict that changed Europe, and the history of warfare, forever.