The First Ship To Open Fire on D-Day
Posted on Monday 9th June 2014


This is an adapted extract from ‘Warpite’ (Pen and Sword, £14.99/$20.00, paperback). Available from or via Amazon. Iain Ballantyne has been to Normandy several times, walking the beaches and the battlefields with men whose comrades-in-arms died during combat in 1944.




Further Reading
Warspite
(Paperback - 224 pages)
ISBN: 9781848843509
by Iain Ballantyne
Only £16.99
No warship name in British naval history has more battle honours than Warspite. While this book looks at the lives of all eight vessels to bear the name (between 1596 and the 1990s), it concentrates on the truly epic story of the seventh vessel, a super-dreadnought battleship, conceived as the ultimate answer to German naval power, during the arms race that helped cause WW1. Warspite fought off the entire German fleet at Jutland, survived a mutiny between the wars and then covered herself in glory in action from the Arctic…
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