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The sinking of the German battleship Bismarck - a masterpiece of engineering, well-armored with a main artillery of eight 15-inch guns - was one of the most dramatic events of World War II. She left the port of Gotenhafen for her first operation on the night of 18 May 1941, yet was almost immediately discovered by Norwegian resistance and Allied air reconnaissance. British battlecruiser Hood was quickly dispatched from Scapa Flow to intercept the Bismarck, together with new battleship Prince of Wales.

Whilst the Kriegsmarine's surface fleet, restricted for much of the period after 1919 by the terms of the Versailles Treaty, was relatively small in comparison to the Royal Navy, it did possess a number of highly potent battleships and other capital vessels that could - and did - pose a major threat to British interests in the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean. Amongst the most powerful were the two battleships - the Bismarck and the Tirpitz.

Illgärning och samvete föder skam och lögn. Ofta blir ånger och osanning nästa gärnings föräldrar... När Julia lämnas av sin man befinner hon sig i kölvattnet efter en svår depression, fylld av panikattacker och återkommande drömmar. Hon är dock fast besluten att komma på fötter så att sonen ska få bo hos henne igen. Julia bestämmer sig för att ta ett jobb som lärare i sin barndomsstad, Uppsala, men glädjen över en nystart har fördunklats av beskedet att hennes ungdomskärlek Per Stenlund tagit livet av sig.