Now a major television documentary (Channel 4, 2021)
The epic mission to destroy Hitler-s flagship.
-Bismarck was now loose in the Atlantic - we had to find and sink her.-
May, 1941. The most powerful battleship the world has ever seen, the German Navy-s Bismarck, breaks out into the Atlantic to ravage Allied convoys. Together with the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, the Bismarck will seek to deliver a killer blow to Britain-s war effort.
The British launch an all-or-nothing bid to sink her, with the Home Fleet and other naval units steaming hard from all points of the compass, straining every sinew to trap and destroy Bismarck. HMS Hood, the battlecruiser pride of the Royal Navy, is destroyed within eight minutes of engaging Bismarck on 24 May. However, the brand new battleship HMS Prince of Wales lands a pivotal blow on Bismarck, puncturing a fuel
