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Expedition Specific Reading

Battleship Bismarck - A Survivor's Story.
Burkhard Baron von Mulleheim-Rechberg. Page 278/ Naval Institute Press, Annapolis. 1990. Clearly the best first person account. He worked with Ballard prior to the 1989. However the first printing of this book was 1980.

Battleships of the Bismarck Class
G. Koop & K-P Schmolke. Page 40. Greenhill Books, London. 1998. Originally printed in Germany, 1990. In print in English

Exploring the Bismarck
Robert D. Ballard. Scholastic/Madison Press, New York. 1991. In print. Paperback lots of good picures and drawings. Modest price.

Five Centuries of Famous Ships
R.G. Albion, pp 386-388. McGraw Hill, NYC. 1978. Brief (3 pages) history of Bismarck. Sinking position attributed to the RN.Out of print.

Last Nine Days of the Bismarck
Cecil Scott Forester. 1988. It can be ordered from Amazon @$18.95

Pursuit, The Chase and Sinking of the Bismarck
by Ludovic Kennedy

The Battleship Bismarck (German Navy at War, Vol 3)
Ulrich E. Herzog. 1990. It can be ordered from Amazon @$34.95

The Bismarck Chase - New Light on a Famous Engagement
Robert J. Winklareth. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis. 1998. Latest of the Bismarck books. Good illustrations and diagrams of the movements of the ships involved in the battles.

The Bismarck Found
National Geographic, November, 1989. Pp622-637. His first report on the finding.

The Destruction of the Bismarck
David J. Bercuson and Holger H. Herwig, The Destruction of the Bismarck, Overlook Press, NY, in paper, $16.95USD

The Discovery of the Bismarck
Robert Ballard. Warner Books Inc./Penguin Books( Canada )/Hodder & Stoughton ( UK ). 1990. His first full-length book on the subject. It is out of print.

The Loss of the Bismarck
Vice Admiral B.B. Schofield. Page 63. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis. 1972. Text based on RN battle reports. Out of print.