This books offers great information on the actions and events which all of Hitler's battleships were involved in. From the beggining to the end of Hitler's battleships, this book gives you detailed information on each of the battleships and all of their sorties carried out during world war II. My only complaint is the lack of pictures, illustrations, maps, and graphs. But besides that, the book is very good and contains great information.

This book was a huge surprise for me. It covers the strenghts of the battleships, their most known operations and even their place in the structure of the Kriegsmarine.For the Navy Fans its a book that you cannot miss and for the others it's also a good and interesting book.Buy it!

Most books on U boat warfare cover the Second World War exclusively, so I was happy to read Gray's history of the action in the first one. The book is a thriller from start to finish and is never boring at any point. It begins with a brief description of the first submarines and then jumps to the action of 1914-18. We learn about the many sinkings of Allied merchant and naval craft and of the U boats themselves. Gray traces the evolution of the conflict well and gives the reader a feeling for what must have been in the minds of the combatants as events became increasingly desperate.

I would encourage anyone interested in naval issues to read this book. Only those wishing to know the details on every sinking of the war will be at all dissapointed.