Holocaust at Sea; The Drama of the Scharnhorst
New York, N.Y. Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1956. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 6 inches by 8.5 inches 182, [6] pages. Frontis illustration. Includes Foreword, Introduction, Illustrations (Includes 22 black and white photographs of battleships and their crews), Bibliography, and Index. Chapters on Biography of a Battleship; The Naval and Military Situation in 1943; "J.W. Convoy en route for Murmansk"; The Scharnhorst puts to Sea; the Royal Navy and the Convoys; The British Radar Apparatus; Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser sets the Trap; The Duke of York sails with Force 2; The Net is Cast; The Scharnhorst on her Sortie; Vice-Admiral Burnett attacks with the 10th Cruiser Squadron, Force 1; The Second Encounter with Force 1; Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser closes the Net; The Scharnhorst under Fire; The Destroyer Sub-Divisions of Force 2 attack; The Duke of York attacks for the Second time; Force 2 and Force 1 close in for the Final Battle; In the Control Position and Port IV 5.9-inch Twin Turret of the Scharnhorst; Jamaica, Belfast and the British Destroyers sink the Scharnhorst with Torpedoes; "To All Stations. From the Captain: Abandon Ship!". Fritz-Otto Busch (30 December 1890 in Lindenthal, Cologne–5 July 1971 in Surrey) was a German naval officer in the Imperial German Navy, the Reichsmarine and the Kriegsmarine, as well as a translator and a maritime and naval writer. He was a committed Nazi and had an influential role in the Nazification of the German P.E.N. from 1933 onwards. He used the pseudonyms Peter Cornelissen and Wilhelm Wolfslast. From 1933 onwards, Busch became the most widely read Nazi propaganda author on naval matters. On Christmas Day, 1943, blinded by the fury of an Arctic blizzard, encircled by enemy destroyers, the German battleship Scharnhorst fought for her life. The luck of the Scharnhorst had become a legend. In 1942 she had slipped unscathed through the Channel under the very bows of the British fleet to harry the Arctic convoy-routes. The British convoy which sailed for Murmansk on Christmas Eve, 1943, seemed a perfect target for another lightning raid. In fact it was a trap to lure the battleship into the open and then destroy her. This is the story of the Scharnhorst’s dramatic sortie from her Norwegian lair. The story of a battle fought with outstanding courage against impossible odds until the most feared of all Hitler’s battleships sank at last off North Cape. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Reichsmarine, Battleship, Murmansk, Convoy, Royal Navy, Scharnhorst, Radar, Bruce Fraser, HMS Duke of York, 10th Cruiser Squadron, Vice-Admiral Burnett, Destroyers, Torpedo, Survival, Rear-Admiral Bey, Hintze
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