In 1945, the Kriegsmarine dispatched its last operational ships in the Mediterranean on a desperate mining mission. The three-ship flotilla was ambushed by the British destroyers HMS Lookout and HMS ...

Early in World War II, Nazi Germany used its navy to isolate Britain from resupply by sea. Germany capital ships, like the battleship Bismarck, were an important part of that strategy. But it was ...

Nazi Germany's two Bismarck-class battleships were the most imposing it built during World War II. The threat they posed to convoys and warships made them a special target for the Allies. British ...

Recently, an author made the argument that the German battleship Bismarck, sunk in May of 1941, was a “waste of resources relative to the combat results they achieved.” Indeed, the author argues the ...