Flagship Hood

Coles, A and T. Briggs: 1985 Robert Hale UK, hardcover with dustjacket 269 pages, with photos.The Fate of Britain’s Mightiest Warship by Alan Coles and Ted Briggs recounts the design, career and dramatic loss of the battlecruiser HMS Hood, long regarded as the pride of the Royal Navy. The authors combine technical detail with eyewitness testimony to describe how Hood was destroyed in minutes by the German battleship Bismarck in May 1941, leaving only three survivors from a crew of more than 1,400 ISBN 9780709020240 / 0709020244 In very good condition