Thrilling mission to protect the Convoys
Operation Title, by Glyn L Evans
Landing page image: the Tirpitz at sea (image taken from Operation Title)
In 1942, the German battleship Tirpitz – called ‘the Beast’ by Winston Churchill – had made its lair in a Norwegian fjord, from where it could threaten the vital Arctic and Atlantic Convoys that kept the British and Soviet war effort supplied.
With no practical way to strike at the vessel from the air, a new plan was devised, the kind of audacious (some might say mad) scheme that could only have been put into action during an all-out war. A Norwegian fishing boat would be used to smuggle British frogmen to the Tirpitz, who would then sink the enormous battleship using ‘torpedoes with seats’.
Drawing on official records and personal accounts, author Glyn Evans brings this piece of history to life by focusing on the experiences of one participant, able seaman Robert Paul Evans, making this a more intimate view of a well-known event.
Operation Title: Sink the Tirpitz
By Glyn L Evans
Pen & Sword, £17.60
ISBN: 978 13990 50197
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