Death of the Scharnhorst - John Winton

John Winton

Category: History

Narrator: Alex Wyndham

Tags: History, Military

An epic account of how the Royal Navy tracked down, cornered, and sank one of the most fearsome German warships of the Second World War., Ideal for readers of Craig L. Symonds, Max Hastings and Doug Stanton., The Scharnhorst was a state of the art capital ship of Nazi Germanys navy. Launched in 1936 she had terrorized Allied shipping since the beginning of the war, famously destroying the aircraft destroyer HMS Glorious in June 1940. Since then she had made numerous sorties into the Atlantic to raid British merchant fleets and had evaded destruction in the Channel Dash of 1942 in order to interrupt convoys to the Soviet Union., The danger posed by the Scharnhorst to the Arctic convoys was monumental. Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, commander-in-chief of the Home Fleet, devised a plan to lure their enemy from its Norwegian base and pound it with shells from the battleship HMS Duke of York and supporting cruisers and destroyers., John Wintons comprehensively researched book, drawing on British