Battleship Bismarck: A Survivor's Story
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Few warships have captured the imagination quite like the German battleship Bismarck, and fewer still have left behind a witness with the clarity and authority of Baron Burkard von Müllenheim-Rechberg. As one of the highest-ranking survivors of the Bismarck's catastrophic final engagement in May 1941, the author chronicles the battleship's legendary — and tragically brief — operational life, from its celebrated sinking of HMS Hood to its own destruction at the hands of the Royal Navy in the freezing waters of the North Atlantic. Translated with precision by Jack Sweetman, this first-hand account presents the harrowing experience of battle and survival with an intimacy that no historian's retrospective could replicate. Beyond its gripping narrative of naval warfare, this memoir stands as a vital primary source for the study of World War II's pivotal sea campaigns. Von Müllenheim-Rechberg writes with the measured discipline of a career naval officer, yet his prose is suffused with a deeply human reckoning with loss, duty, and survival — painting a portrait of the men who served aboard one of history's most formidable vessels. For anyone who has ever wondered what it truly meant to be aboard the Bismarck as her fate was sealed, this extraordinary testament provides the only answer that matters.
Author: Baron Burkard Von Mullenheim-Rechberg
Format: Hardback
Published: 1981, The Bodley Head
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Few warships have captured the imagination quite like the German battleship Bismarck, and fewer still have left behind a witness with the clarity and authority of Baron Burkard von Müllenheim-Rechberg. As one of the highest-ranking survivors of the Bismarck's catastrophic final engagement in May 1941, the author chronicles the battleship's legendary — and tragically brief — operational life, from its celebrated sinking of HMS Hood to its own destruction at the hands of the Royal Navy in the freezing waters of the North Atlantic. Translated with precision by Jack Sweetman, this first-hand account presents the harrowing experience of battle and survival with an intimacy that no historian's retrospective could replicate. Beyond its gripping narrative of naval warfare, this memoir stands as a vital primary source for the study of World War II's pivotal sea campaigns. Von Müllenheim-Rechberg writes with the measured discipline of a career naval officer, yet his prose is suffused with a deeply human reckoning with loss, duty, and survival — painting a portrait of the men who served aboard one of history's most formidable vessels. For anyone who has ever wondered what it truly meant to be aboard the Bismarck as her fate was sealed, this extraordinary testament provides the only answer that matters.