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Title: The Bismarck Episode. Author: Russell Grenfell. Publisher: Westholme Publishing Publication date: 2010 (first published in 1948). ISBN: 1594161100 Format: Hardcover, 232 Pages. |
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Title: Bismarck. A Minute by Minute Account of the Final Hours of Germany's Greatest Battleship Authors: Niklas Zetterling, Michael Tamelander. Publisher: Casemate Books. Publication date: 2009. ISBN: 1935149040 Format: Hardcover, 320 pages. |
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Title: Schlachtschiff Bismarck. Author: Jochen Brennecke. Publisher: Koehler Verlag. Publication date: 2009 (first published in 1960). ISBN: 3782208773 Format: Hardcover, 620 pages. Comments: Excellent account in German language. |
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Title: Robert Ballard's Bismarck: Germany's Greatest Battleship Surrenders Her Secrets Author: Robert D. Ballard. Publisher: Chartwell Books. Publication date: 2007 (first published in 1990). ISBN: 0446513865 Format: Hardcover, 231 pages. Comments: It covers Dr. Ballard's expedition to find the wreck of the Bismarck in the late 1980's. |
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Title: Hunting the Bismarck. Author: Miroslaw Skwiot, Elzbieta Teresa Prusinowska. Publisher: Crowood Press. Publication date: 2006. ISBN: 186126819X Format: Hardcover, 200 pages. |
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Title: The Battleship Bismarck (Anatomy of the Ship). Author: Jack Brower. Publisher: Conway Maritime Press - Naval Institute Press. Publication date: 2005. ISBN: 0851779824 Format: Hardcover, 160 pages. |
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Title: Schlachtschiff Bismarck. Ein Überlebender berichtet vom Glanz und Untergang der Bismarck am 27. Mai 1941. Author: Burkard Freiherr von Mülleheim-Rechberg. Publisher: Flechsig. Publication date: 2005 (first published in 1980). ISBN: 3548331599 Format: Hardcover, 432 pages. |
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Title: Schlachtschiff Bismarck - Das Modell. Author: Josef Kaiser. Publisher: SimonFreyVerlag. Publication date: 2005. ISBN: 3-938494-02-6 Format: Hardcover, 450 b&w photos, 162 pages. |
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Title: Schlachtschiff Bismarck - Das Original im Detail. Author: Josef Kaiser. Publisher: SimonFreyVerlag. Publication date: 2004. ISBN: 3-938494-01-8 Format: Hardcover, 250 b&w photos, 162 pages. |
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Title: The Battleship Bismarck. The Complete History of a Legendary Ship. Author: José M. Rico. Publication date: April 2004. Format: Electronic PDF e-book, 168 b/w photos, 25 colour photos, 20 maps & drawings, prints 232 pages. Comments: The complete operational history of the Bismarck from inception to final demise. Includes information on the wreck, crew, models, internet websites... Read more. |
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Title: Un cuirassé à détruire: Le Bismarck. Author: Philippe Caresse. Publisher: LELA Presse. Publication date: 2004. ISBN: 2-914017-23-5 Format: Hardcover, A4 size, over 200 photos, drawings, 160 pages. |
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Title: Warship Pictorial 19. Kriegsmarine Bismarck. Author: Steve Wiper. Publisher: Classic Warships Inc. Publication date: October 2003. ISBN: 0-9745687-0-8 Format: Hardcover, 130 b&w photos, 72 pages. |
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Title: Pancerniki Typu Bismarck cz. 5. Bismarck/Tirpitz. Author: Miroslaw Skwiot. Publisher: AJ-PRESS. Publication date: 2003. ISBN: 83-7237-078-8 Format: Softcover, 69 b&w photos, 3D Illustrations, 84 pages. Comments: This book is in Polish language. Photo legends are in both Polish and English. |
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Title: Pancerniki Typu Bismarck cz. 4. Bismarck/Tirpitz. Author: Adam Jarski, Miroslaw Skwiot. Publisher: AJ-PRESS. Publication date: 2002. ISBN: 83-7237-077-X Format: Softcover, 65 b&w photos, 64 pages, 6 sheets of A1 size plans. Comments: This book is in Polish language. Photo legends are in both Polish and English. |
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Title: Battleship Bismarck. A Survivor's Story. Author: Burkard Baron von Mülleheim-Rechberg. Publisher: Naval Institute Press. Publication date: 2002 (first published in 1980). ISBN: 1557504369 Format: Paperback, 467 pages. Comments: This is a new and revised edition of the book that was first published in 1980. Highly recommended. |
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Title: Pancerniki Typu Bismarck cz. 3. Bismarck. Author: Miroslaw Skwiot. Publisher: AJ-PRESS. Publication date: 2001. ISBN: 83-7237-076-1 Format: Softcover, 77 b&w photos, 64 pages, 4 sheets of A1 size plans. Comments: This book is in Polish language. Photo legends are in both Polish and English. |
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Title: Pancerniki Typu Bismarck cz. 2. Tirpitz. Authors: Elzbieta T. Prusinowska, Miroslaw Skwiot. Publisher: AJ-PRESS. Publication date: 2001. ISBN: 83-7237-075-3 Format: Softcover, 89 b&w photos, 56 pages, 4 sheets of A1 size plans. Comments: This book is in Polish language. Photo legends are in both Polish and English. |
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Title: Hood and Bismarck. The Deep-Sea Discovery of an Epic Battle. Authors: David Mearns & Rob White. Publisher: Channel 4 books. Publication date: November 2001. ISBN: 0752220357 Format: Hardcover, 226 pages. Comments: It covers the 2001 expeditions to the wrecks of the Bismarck and Hood. |
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Title: The Destruction of the Bismarck. Author: David J. Bercuson, Holger H. Herwig. Publisher: Overlook Press. Publication date: September 2001. ISBN: 1585671924 Format: Hardcover, 21 photos & illustrations, 3 maps, 388 pages. |
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Title: German Capital Ships of World War Two. Author: M. J. Whitley Publisher: Cassell Academic. Publication date: May 2001 (first published in 1989). ISBN: 0304357073 Format: Paperback, 224 pages. Comments: Among other things includes a detailed description of the design of the Bismarck Class and Operation Rheinübung. |
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Title: Sink the Bismarck. Author: Duncan Harding. Publisher: Severn House Publishers. Publication date: 2001. ISBN: 0727856669 Format: Hardcover, 224 pages. |
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Title: Pancerniki Typu Bismarck cz. 1. Tirpitz. Authors: Elzbieta T. Prusinowska, Miroslaw Skwiot. Publisher: AJ-PRESS. Publication date: 2000. ISBN: 83-7237-074-5 Format: Softcover, 42 b&w photos, 56 pages, 4 sheets of A1 size plans. Comments: This book is in Polish language. Photo legends are in both Polish and English. |
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Title: The Loss of the Bismarck: An Avoidable Disaster. Author: Graham Rhys-Jones. Publisher: Cassell & Co - Naval Institute Press. Publication date: 1999. ISBN: 1557505330 Format: Hardcover, 34 photos, 6 maps, 256 pages. |
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Title: Sink the Bismarck: Germany's Super Battleship of World War II. Author: Tom McGowen. Publisher: Twenty First Century Books. Publication date: 1999. ISBN: 0761315101 Format: 64 pages. |
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Title: The Bismarck Chase. New Light on a Famous Engagement. Author: Robert J. Winklareth. Publisher: Naval Institute Press. Publication date: 1998. ISBN: 1557501831 Format: Hardcover, 49 b&w photos, 188 pages. Comments: This book claims that many of the famous photos taken during the battle of the Denmark Strait have consistently been printed/shown in reverse since 1941 onward. This reversed photo theory is baseless and no longer worthy of serious consideration. |
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Title: On Course to Oblivion. An Analogy of the Kriegsmarine and the Battleship Bismarck. Author: Robert C Gramberg. Publisher: Invictus. Publication date: November 1998. ISBN: 1883228247 Format: Hardcover, 163 pages. |
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Title: Battleships of the Bismarck Class. Bismarck and Tirpitz: Culmination and Finale of German Battleship Construction. Authors: Gerhard Koop and Klaus-Peter Schmolke. Publisher: Naval Institute Press. Publication date: June 1998. ISBN: 1557500495 Format: Hardcover, 185 b&w photos, 20 line illustrations and scale plans, 159 pages. Comments: Originally published in 1990 in German language as "Die Schlachtschiffe der Bismarck Klasse." |
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Title: Schlachtschiff Bismarck. Eine Technikgeschichtliche Dokumentation. Authors: Siegfried Breyer and Gerhard Koop. Publisher: Podzun-Pallas. Publication date: 1997. ISBN: 3860472437 Format: Hardcover, 175 photos, 143 pages. Comments: Excellent German language book full of photos and drawings many in big format. The last 22 pages are entirely dedicated to the battlecruiser Hood. |
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Title: Die Schlachtschiffe der Bismarck Klasse. Author: Siegfried Breyer. Publisher: Podzun-Pallas. Publication date: 1995. ISBN: Format: Softcover, 48 pages. |
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Title: Schlachtschiff Bismarck. Gesunken. Ein Überlebender berichtet. Author: Josef Statz. Publisher: Verlag Tebbert KG. Publication date: 1994. ISBN: 3929207133 Format: Hardcover, 424 pages. Comments: Excellent German language book written by Bismarck survivor, Josef Statz. |
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Title: Bismarck. Authors: Miroslaw Skwiot, Adam Jarski. Publisher: AJ-PRESS. Publication date: 1993. Format: Paperback, 48 pages. Comments: This book is in Polish language. |
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Title: Bismarck and Hood: Great Naval Adversaries. Author: Paul J. Kemp. Publisher: Arms & Armour. Publication date: 1991. ISBN: 1854090992 Format: Softcover, 85 photos, 1 map, 2 ship profiles, 64 pages. |
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Title: The Discovery of the Bismarck: Germany's Greatest Battleship Surrenders Her Secrets Author: Robert D. Ballard. Publisher: Viking/Madison Press. Publication date: 1990. ISBN: 0446513865 Format: Hardcover, 231 pages. Comments: It covers Dr. Ballard's expedition to find the wreck of the Bismarck in the late 1980's. |
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Title: Die Schlachtschiffe der Bismarck Klasse. Authors: Gerhard Koop und Klaus-Peter Schmolke. Publisher: Bernard & Graefe Publication date: 1990. ISBN: 3763758909 Format: Hardcover, 156 pages. |
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Title: The Battleship Bismarck. A documentary in Words and Pictures. Authors: Ulrich Elfrath and Bodo Herzog. Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Publication date: 1989 ISBN: 0887402216 Format: Hardcover, 192 b&w photos, 5 maps, 2 ship profiles, 159 pages. Comments: Originally published in 1975 in German language as "Schlachtschiff Bismarck. Ein Bericht in Bildern und Dokumentation". Includes excellent photographs many in big format. |
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Title: La Tragique odyssée du cuirassé Bismarck. Author: Jean Trogoff. Publisher: Ouest-France. Publication date: 1989. ISBN: 2737304897 Format: . |
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Title: Battleships. Axis and Neutral Battleships in World War II. Authors: Willian H. Garzke and Robert O. Dulin. Publisher: Naval Institute Press. Publication date: 1985. ISBN: 0870211013 Format: Hardcover, 523 pages. Comments: Includes a detailed coverage of the Bismarck Class, complete operational history, outboard profiles, etc. |
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Title: Schlachtschiff Bismarck. Ein Überlebender in seiner Zeit. Author: Burkard Freiherr von Mülleheim-Rechberg. Publisher: Ullstein TB-Vlg. Publication date: 1980. ISBN: 3548331599 Format: Hardcover, 431 pages. |
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Title: Pursuit: The Chase and Sinking of the Battleship Bismarck. Author: Ludovic Kennedy. Publisher: Book Club Associates, London. Publication date: 1974. ISBN: 1557504725 Format: Hardcover, 296 pages. Comments: Considered one of the best books in the subject. |
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Title: Warship Profile 18, KM Bismarck/Battleship. Author: Paul Schmalenbach. Publisher: Profile Publications Ltd. Publication date: 1972. Format: Softcover, 24 pages. |
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Title: The Loss of the Bismarck. Author: B. B. Schofield Publisher: Ian Allan, London. Publication date: 1972. ISBN: 0711002657 Format: Hardcover, 34 photos, 6 maps, 96 Pages. |
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Title: The Sinking of The Bismarck. Author: William L. Shirer. Publisher: Randoim House - Landmark Books. Publication date: 1962. ISBN: 0394805518 Format: Hardcover, 20 photos, 178 pages. |
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Title: Schlachtschiff Bismarck. Author: Jochen Brennecke. Publisher: Koehler Verlag, Herford. Publication date: 1960. ISBN: 3782203682 Format: Hardcover, 411 pages. Comments: The best researched book about the Bismarck at the time of its publishing. |
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Title: The Sinking of The Bismarck. Author: Will Berthold. Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co. Publication date: 1958. ISBN: n/a Format: Hardcover, 6 photos, 1 map, 191 pages. Comments: First published in Germany by Süddeutscher Verlag GMBH, Munich, under the title "Getreu bis in den Tod". |
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Title: Das Geheimnis der Bismarck. Author: Fritz Otto Busch. Publisher: Adolf Sponholtz Verlag, Hannover. Publication date: 1950. ISBN: n/a Format: Hardcover, 27 photos, 7 chart sketches, 133 pages. |
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Title: The Bismarck Episode. Author: Russell Grenfell. Publisher: Faber and Faber Publication date: 1948. ISBN: 0844640247 Format: Hardcover, 14 photos, 7 maps, 219 Pages. |
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Title: Prinz Eugen im ersten Gefecht. Author: Fritz Otto Busch. Publisher: C. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh. Publication date: 1943. ISBN: n/a Format: Hardcover, 92 photos, 4 maps/sketches, 324 pages. Comments: Prinz Eugen im ersten Gefecht (The First Battle of Prinz Eugen) is one of many books Korvettenkapitän Fritz Otto Busch wrote during his naval career (1912-1945) and... Read more. |
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Title: 'Gentlemen, the Bismarck has been sunk.' Author: Eryk K. S. Sopocko. Publisher: Methuen & Co. Ltd., London. Publication date: 1942. ISBN: n/a Format: 93 pages. |
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Title: The Cruise of the Bismarck. Author: Francis McMurtrie. Publisher: Hutchinson & Co. Publication date: 1941. ISBN: n/a Format: Hardcover, 23 illustrations, 1 map, 70 pages. |
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