There have been many fine books, movies, and television shows about the legendary HMS Hood. No work has ever offered the level of in-depth research combined with such a fine narrative as in The End of Glory. The great battlecruiser HMS Hood was the ship that flew the flag across the world in the 1930s during the twilight years of the British Empire. In 1941 she was destroyed in seconds by the battleship Bismarck, a catastrophe that dumbfounded the British public. For the officers and crew who manned her for twenty years, she was a home. This new book, through official documents as well as the personal accounts and memories of more than 150 crewmen, offers a vivid image of the difficult life on a warship in peacetime and in war.
- ISBN10 1591142350
- ISBN13 9781591142355
- Publish Date 15 July 2012 (first published 3 April 2012)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Naval Institute Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English