{"product_id":"book-h1bm","title":"Death of the Scharnhorst","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn epic account of how the Royal Navy tracked down, cornered, and sank one of the most fearsome German warships of the Second World War.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eScharnhorst\u003c\/i\u003e was a state of the art capital ship of Nazi Germany's navy. Launched in 1936 she had terrorized Allied shipping since the beginning of the war, famously destroying the aircraft destroyer HMS \u003ci\u003eGlorious\u003c\/i\u003e in June 1940. Since then she had made numerous sorties into the Atlantic to raid British merchant fleets and had evaded destruction in the Channel Dash of 1942 in order to interrupt convoys to the Soviet Union.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe danger posed by the \u003ci\u003eScharnhorst\u003c\/i\u003e to the Arctic convoys was monumental. Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, commander-in-chief of the Home Fleet, devised a plan to lure their enemy from its Norwegian base and pound it with shells from the battleship HMS \u003ci\u003eDuke of York\u003c\/i\u003e and supporting cruisers and destroyers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Winton's comprehensively researched book, drawing on British and German eyewitness accounts, uncovers how the threat of the \u003ci\u003eScharnhorst\u003c\/i\u003e was eventually brought to an end at the Battle of the North Cape in the freezing conditions of the Barents Sea.","brand":"Tantor","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49353680650544,"sku":"BDh1bm","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49353680716080,"sku":"ZEh1bm","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49353680748848,"sku":"ZMh1bm","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/h1bm-Square-cover.jpg?v=1780232198","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-h1bm","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}