ISBN: 0330236334
Godina izdanja: 1973
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani
Oblast: Vojna istorija

Thomas Gallagher - Against All Odds by Thomas Gallagher: The Story of Midget Subs versus the Tirpitz in 1943
Pan, 1973
166 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

Illustrated Paperback

In Norway`s Kaafjord, a thousand miles from the nearest British bomber base, but only fifty miles from the route taken by every allied convoy bound for Russia, lurked the 43,000 ton German battleship, Tirpitz. The year was 1943 and Churchill had said, `the whole strategy of the war turns at this period on this ship,` so it was vital that `the beast,` as he described her, be somehow destroyed or put out of action.

The X-Craft,was one of the most cramped, potentially most lethal weapons of war ever devised since the Trojan Horse.
It was designed to attack the Tirpitz in her Norwegian Base - Meticulously planned and rehearsed, the attack succeeded partly by reason of this training but largely on the strength of a number of brilliant improvisations forced on the crews by changes of circumstance that no one could have foreseen.
Against All Odds is, therefore, a story of steadily mounting suspense where the expected seldom happens and individual character and decision play a major part. Never before told in full from the inception of the new weapon to its triumphantly successful use, the X-Craft`s story adds a chapter to British Naval history that can seldom have been equalled for the bravery and ingenuity shown or the excitement of the telling.


Nonfiction, War, History, 0330236334