The Discovery of the Bismarck
Ken Marschall New York: Warner Books, 1990. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 29 cm. Illustrated endpapers. 231, [1] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Color maps. Appendix. Sticker residue on front and back covers. Introduction by Ludovic Kennedy. Technical and Historical consultation by William H. Garzke, Jr. and Robert O. Dulin, Jr. Robert Duane Ballard (born June 30, 1942) is a retired United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is most noted for his work in underwater archaeology: maritime archaeology and archaeology of shipwrecks. He is most known for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in 1998. He discovered the wreck of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in 2002 and visited Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana, who saved its crew. He leads ocean exploration on E/V Nautilus. Ballard undertook an even more daunting task when he and his team searched off the coast of France for the German Battleship Bismarck in 1989, using an ocean-crawling robot. The 15,000 foot deep water in which it sank[11] is 4,000 feet deeper than that where the Titanic sank. He attempted to determine whether it had been sunk by the British or was scuttled by its own crew. Here, from the man who brought the world the Titanic, is the unforgettable story of Hitler's most famous battleship -- how she sailed, was sunk under fire, and then thrillingly rediscovered nearly fifty years later. In words and pictures, Robert Ballard gives a gripping account of his exploration of the wreck of the Bismarck and sheds new light on many of the questions that surround the sinking -- or was it scuttling? -- of this mighty war machine. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: WWII, Naval, Germany, Third Reich, Nazis, Deep Submergence, Kreigsmarine, Shipwrecks, U-Boats, Battleship Bismarck, Argo, von Mullenheim-Rechberg, Gunther Lutjens, Ernst Lindemann
ISBN: 0446513865
[Book #19709]
Price: $65.00