Explore the rise of the Scharnhorst-class battleships, Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, from their engineering under Versailles restrictions to their strategic impact in World War II, sinking over 115,000 ...

Although battleships were supplanted by aircraft carriers by the end of World War II, they remain a testament to a bygone era of warfare—and a symbol of their nations’ might. For nearly half a century ...