Iain Ballantyne

In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck, broke out into the Atlantic, to attack Allied shipping. The Royal Navy's pursuit and subsequent destruction of Bismarck was an epic of naval warfare. This new account of those dramatic events is a thrilling story, mainly from the point of view of the British battleships, cruisers and destroyers involved.

Warspite fought off the entire German fleet at Jutland, survived a mutiny between the wars and then covered herself in glory in action from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean during WW2. But this is not just the story of a warship. It is also the story of the great naval nation which constructed her.