Busch, Friz-Otto

Fortunes of War Ser. : The Graceful Predator

Launched in 1938...commissioned in 1940...sunk in 1946...famed for her beauty, speed and grace of line...The Prinz Eugen was Germany's most modern heavy cruiser. She took part in the sinking of the Hood. She made the notorious Channel dash with the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. From Norway, threatened by invasion, to the Baltic in 1945, where Hitler's hard-pressed troops fought for survival: through four long years of war the Prinz Eugen and her crew endured the ceaseless pounding of enemy bomber and torpedo and the relentless savagery of the sea. This is the story of those years.