Cassell Military Classics: Death of the Scharnhorst (Cassell Military Paperbacks) [Paperback]

John Winton (Author)

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Publication Date: June 30, 2001 | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks

In one of World War Two's great naval battles, the Royal Navy finally tracked down, cornered, and sank The Scharnhorst--a potent symbol of Nazi seagoing power that had wreaked havoc on Allied convoys. This gripping military tale reveals how the cruiser was lured out of her Norwegian haven on Christmas Day 1943...and in a climactic fight, perished under the big guns of the battleship Duke of York. Eyewitnesses recount this crucial victory that was helped by the cracking of German codes.

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After fourteen years of service in the Royal Navy John Winton retired in 1963, having served in Korea and Suez. He is now a full time writer, and has published a dozen fiction titles and fifteen non-fiction titles.

Product Details

• Paperback: 182 pages
• Publisher: Cassell (June 30, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0304355208
• ISBN-13: 978-0304355204
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,332,836 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars old fashioned battle, August 25, 2001

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This review is from: Cassell Military Classics: Death of the Scharnhorst (Cassell Military Paperbacks) (Paperback)

Books as this I find are good and accurate respect to the impersonal details: size of ships, days and hours of the battles, number of men involved, equipment, etc. But they have a touch of jingoism that is very own of British raccounts of war and I think fully gone with World War II. In effect, references to past military glories abounds, the men are all full capable and brave, no one coward is seen. Even the Germans with his dangerous nazi "Schnanrhorst" and other battleships are seen as nostalgic, noble enemies. A point of view I believe fully innacceptable today as, I repeat, that isn't unusual to read in English war books, but industrial total war has demonstrated by far that today simply can't be fougth. We now know there's no man capable to stand several weeks of modern war withouth serious psychical consequences if no dead of psycally wounded. The sank of the Schnarnhorst is told in this book as a medieval battle and that is a counterfeit of the facts.