The Death of the Scharnhorst - John Winton

It was Christmas Day. 1943. The great battleship

SCHARNHORST, pride of the German Navy, prepared to slip secretly out of her Norwegian lair.

But Germany s codes had been cracked by ULTRA. and Britain knew that the efforts to lure SCHARNHORST out into the open sea had finally paid off.

In the icy grey wastes of the wintry Arctic Ocean. one of the classic naval battles of this century was about to begin.

This is the story of that battle.