Tirpitz was the heaviest warship ever built by a European navy during World War II. It was only 2,000 tonnes heavier than its sister battleship Bismarck. The colossal ship became a real problem for ...
The German battleship Tirpitz was a constant threat to Allied merchant ships from 1942. On November 12, 1944, the ship was sunk off the coast of Tromsø, where it had been lying damaged since being ...
Obsessed with “game-changing” Wunderwaffen (“wonder weapons”) Adolf Hitler squandered vast resources on the development and construction of monster war machines that proved to have little operational ...