Battleships of the Bismarck Class: Bismarck and Tirpitz: Culmination and Finale of German Battleship Construction por Koop, Gerhard and Schmolke, Klaus-Peter - 2014

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Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2014. First U.S. Edition, Presumed First Printing. Trade paperback. Very good. Klaus-Peter Schmolke. 159, [1] pages. Illustrations (photographs and diagrams). Includes Foreword, Bibliography, Index of ships, and About the Authors. Also includes chapters on Development and Construction (Bismarck Class Technical Layout, and Scale Plans); The Battleship Bismarck (Origin of the Name; Otto Furst von Bismarck); The Battleship Tirpitz (Origin of the Name: Grossadmiral Alfred von Tirpitz); and Conclusions. This is part of the Warships of the Kriegsmarine series. A short biography of the personality after whom each ship was named is followed by a comprehensive selection of photographs, preference being given to those rarely seen previously or appearing in a publication for the first time. Gerhard Koop served in the Kriegsmarine in the Second World War and then in the postwar Federal German Navy until his retirement in 1981. He was a widely published… Ler mais