Exploring the Bismarck Book

Shells from the British guns shrieked overhead and thudded onto the crippled battleship Bismarck. Fires burned on her decks and choking black smoke billowed skyward. Deep in the ship Adi, Franz and Heinz wondered if they would ever survive this furious sea battle. Maybe they could reach a higher deck by crawling up through that dark and narrow cable shaft.

The lights from Robert Ballard's underwater camera sled Argo shone down on the sunken battleship. The Bismarck's guns pointed crazily upward as if still ready to fire. Huge shell holes gaped in her wooden decks, and eerie giant swastikas glimmered through the darkness. Nearby stood an open doorway - the same door that Hitler had walked through nearly half a century before...

This award-winning bestseller from the authors of Exploring the Titanic combines the exciting story of one of history's great sea battles with the t hrilling undersea discovery of the wreck of a famous Nazi battleship. Features original paintings. archival photos, maps, and diagrams.