Product Description

This volume provides a comprehensively-researched account of how the Royal Navy finally tracked down, cornered and sank one of the most famous and dangerous ships of World War II, the German battle-cruiser The Scharnhorst.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14671 in Books
• Published on: 2001-12-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 182 pages

About the Author
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.

Customer Reviews

A blow-by-blow description of the battle.
A reasonably detailed account of the run-up, battle and sinking of the Scharnhorst. Although the book takes you on a chronological journey, it does sometimes depart from it's story to offer an opinion from a different point of view. This combined with narratives included from other eye-witnesses demands higher than normal levels of concentration when reading this work. Small elements of naval terminology (which are never explained), do tend to interrupt the story. Having said that, I enjoyed reading this book, and in fact read the whole book in just 2 days.

Interesting but technical mistakes
On Page 2 her length is given as 770 feet. All my reference books vary from 740 to 753 feet. Her guns 280mm; 150mm and 105mm are all given wrong calibres when converted to imperial measurements. Just encountering those factual inaccuracies on Page 2 leaves me wondering about the accuracy of the remainder of the book which is a very interesting one.