Als das deutsche Schlachtschiff »Bismarck« 1940 in Dienst gestellt wurde, war es das größte und kampfstärkste Kriegsschiff, das die Welt bis dahin gesehen hatte. Diese Stärke allerdings wurde ihr zum Verhängnis, denn für die Briten war...

Das Buch "Guilford Courthouse 1781: Lord Cornwallis's Ruinous Victory" von Adam Hook untersucht eine entscheidende Schlacht im Amerikanischen Unabhängigkeitskrieg. Die Schlacht bei Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina war ein taktischer...

Following the pirate scourge of the early 18th century, many sea captains took to privateering as a means of making money. A form of nationally sponsored piracy, it reached its peak during the American Revolution, when the fledgling...

The German battleship Scharnhorst had a reputation for being a lucky ship. Early in the war she fought off a British battlecruiser and sunk a carrier, before carrying out two successful forays into the Atlantic. In the spring of 1943,...

A history and analysis of one of the most dramatic moments in both air power and naval history. With the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse, no battleship was safe on the open ocean, and the aircraft took its crown as the most...

Atlas versunkener Schiffe von Konstam, Angus

Taranto 1940: The Fleet Air Arm’s precursor to Pearl Harbor (Campaign, Band 288)