The Battle of North Cape: the Death Ride of the Scharnhorst, 1943

On 25 December 1943 the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst slipped out of Altenfjord in Norway to attack Arctic convoy JW55B. Angus Konstam's gripping account tells the story of this crucial and under-studied naval battle, and explains why the hopes of the German Kriegsmarine went down with their last great ship.