Bismarck design history
Bismarck design history
I just read an article, "Ship-of-the-Line or Atlantic Raider? Battleship Bismarck between Design Limitations and Naval Strategy" by Timothy P Mulligan (The Journal of Military History, Oct 2005). He paints a bleak picture of the setting in which the Bismarck design developed, saying basically that there was no specific role foreseen for the ship. One of the more interesting references cited is a book Deutsche Marinerüstung 1919 - 1942 by Treue, Möller, and Rahn (Mittler & Sohn, 1992). Has anyone seen this?