Description: Churchill called it "the Beast." It was said to be unsinkable. More than 30 military operations failed to destroy it. Eliminating the "Tirpitz," Hitler's mightiest warship, a 52,000-ton behemoth, became an Allied obsession.
Brief description: Patrick Bishop is one of Britain's leading military historians with his critically acclaimed and bestselling books Fighter Boys, Bomber Boys, 3 Para, and Ground Truth. Born in London and a graduate of Wimbledon College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he worked for the Evening Standard, the Observer, the Sunday Times, and as a reporter on Channel Four News before joining the Telegraph. He spent more than twenty years as a foreign correspondent reporting from war zones around the world. He lives with his family in London.