The Hunt for Hitler's Warship

Patrick Bishop

Apr 2013 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

Winston Churchill called it "the Beast." It was said to be unsinkable. More than thirty military operations failed to destroy it. Eliminating the Tirpitz, Hitler's mightiest warship, a 52,000-ton behemoth, became an Allied obsession.

In The Hunt for Hitler's Warship, Patrick Bishop tells the epic story of the men who would not rest until the Tirpitz lay at the bottom of the sea. In November of 1944, with the threat to Russian supply lines increasing and Allied forces needing reinforcements in the Pacific, a raid as audacious as any Royal Air Force operation of the war was launched, under the command of one of Britain's greatest but least-known war heroes, Wing Commander Willie Tait.

Patrick Bishop draws on decades of experience as a foreign war correspondent to paint a vivid picture of this historic clash of the Royal Air Force's Davids versus Hitler's Goliath of naval engineering. Readers will not be able to put down this account of one of World War II's most dramatic showdowns.

About the author

Patrick Bishop is one of Britain’s leading military historians with his critically acclaimed and bestselling books Fighter Boys, Bomber Boys, 3 Para, and Ground Truth. Born in London and a graduate of Wimbledon College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he worked for the Evening Standard, the Observer, the Sunday Times, and as a reporter on Channel Four News before joining the Telegraph. He spent more than twenty years as a foreign correspondent reporting from war zones around the world. He lives with his family in London.