 First US edition Cover art by Samuel H. Bryant | |
| Author | C. S. Forester |
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| Publisher | Little, Brown & Co. |
Publication date | March 9, 1959 |
The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck (Little Brown), [1] also published as Hunting the Bismark, is a 1959 novel by C. S. Forester, best known as the author of the popular Horatio Hornblower series of naval-themed books. Closely based on the actual sinking of the German battleship Bismarck , the novel includes fictionalized dialogue and incidents.
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The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck tells the story of the breakout of the Bismarck into the Atlantic as a major threat to the convoys that sustained Britain in the early days of World War II, and the Royal Navy's desperate pursuit and destruction of the ship. Sink the Bismarck! , a movie based on Forester's book, was released by Twentieth Century-Fox in 1960, with the book reprinted in paperback under the title Sink the Bismarck! (Bantam, 1959) as a promotional tie-in.
