Winston Churchill delivered this now iconic speech at the height of the Battle of Britain, in 1940. Using the outnumbered RAF pilots as a shining example, the country followed suit with its steadfast defiance of the threat of Nazi invasion. We bring you the full transcript of the speech, along with a short audio extract.

Winston Churchill had not been Prime Minister long when he delivered his famous "Their Finest Hour" speech in June 1940. Western Europe had withered under the hitherto unknown method of fighting the German Army was employing  - Blitzkrieg - with Paris surrendering just days before Churchill delivered this speech. We bring you the full transcript of the speech, along with a short audio excerpt.

The mighty German Battleship Tirpitz weighing in at over 50 tonnes when fully displaced, was the second ship of the Bismarck class operated by the German Navy Fleet during World War Two. She was the sister ship to the infamous Bismarck, and took her name from the famous German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz.

The Tirpitz was destined never to actually fire on enemy shipping instead she spent most of World War Two holed up in various bases around Nazi occupied Norway. But it was the mere presence of the Tirpitz in the area was enough of a threat to the Allied shipping transporting vital supplies to the Soviet Union for the Royal Navy to commit significant and vital resources to protect them from the largest battleship ever built in Europe, being even bigger than the Bismarck.

This is the story of the battleship Tirpitz—Bismarck’s sister ship—and the desperateAllied efforts to destroy it . . .

and is due for release by Casemate publishing in December 2009.

After the Royal Navy’s bloody high seas campaign to kill the mighty Bismarck, the Allies were left with an uncomfortable truth—the German behemoth had a twin sister. Slightly larger than her sibling, the Tirpitz was equally capable of destroying any other battleship afloat, as well as wreak havoc on Allied troop and supply convoys. For the next three and a half years the Allies launched a variety of attacks to remove Germany’s last serious surface threat.