On the evening of 5 November 1940, the armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay found itself standing alone between a vulnerable ...
On Christmas 1943, the German battleship Scharnhorst sailed into the freezing Arctic seas on a mission to destroy Allied ...
"Pocket battleship" was the nickname given by the British to a very unique German weapon of war: the Panzerschiffe, or armored ship. Created as part of the nation's efforts to bolster its military in ...