Название: HMS Hood: Pride of the Royal Navy
Автор: Andrew Norman
Издательство: Spellmount
ISBN: 1862274533
Год издания: 2008
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 162
Формат: PDF
Размер: 93,4 MB
When the battle cruiser HMS Hood was sunk by the Bismark and her consort Prinz Eugen in May 1941, the shock to the Royal Navy, to Britain and the world was immense. Hood had seemed invincible and the epitome of naval power, with her eight 15-inch and eight 4-inch guns. She would prove be anything but, and would become the tomb of 1,418 men. Basing his narrative on primary sources at the Royal Naval Museum and in Germany, plus a unique interview with one of only three survivors of the disaster, Andrew Norman offers his own theory for the ship's fantastically rapid loss.