Sink the Bismarck!
C. S. Forester
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The true story of Hitler’s mightiest battleship, how in the early days of World War II, it was hunted, fought, and destroyed in the crucial Battle of the Atlantic as recounted by the international best-selling author C.S. Forester.<p>C. S. Forester, an Englishman by parentage, was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1899, the son of a British Army officer. After service in the infantry in World War I, he began his writing career. In 1937 he wrote the first Horatio Hornblower novel. This would become a series of international bestselling sea adventure novels that would make him one of the most acclaimed writers in the 20th Century. Forester was also the author of The African Queen which was made into a movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn. Forester moved to the United States in 1940, becoming an American citizen. He died in 1966.<br></p></br>