I have on welcome to the pod.

Eight years ago this week the wrong navy was engaged in a massive struggle.

One of the largest naval operations of the water at point against the German super battleship

Bismarck, it was unleashed on the north Atlantic attempting to sever Britain's lifelines

from the rest of the world.

On the 24th of May HMS Hood was destroyed, regarded as the most powerful ship in the Royal

Navy, Hood was blown up within six minutes of joining battle with Bismarck as one of

the German shells penetrated her magazine and the mighty battleship was almost vaporized,

leading to the loss of over 1400 lives which is three survivors who are plucked out of

the icy north Atlantic a few hours later.

Disprefort consternation in Britain, Winston Churchill described the next few days as the

worst few days of the war thus far.

To my anniversary we've got a couple of podcasts as we were angous, consternation on the pod

today.

It's a repeat of a pod cast a minute a few years ago, he wrote a wonderful book on Bismarck

so we're going to hear from him talking about the campaign, the battles and we are also

going to hear later in a week from some of the veterans.

Interviews recorded before their deaths in which they talk about what it was like to fight

both on the German and British sides.

Very exciting, we've also got our two pod series on HistoryHit.tv to mark the eight

years anniversary.

It's particularly special for me if you'll forgive a little bit of emotion here.

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