Chris Bishop was a specialist author writing many books on military history and military technology. He was the author of Kriegsmarine U-Boats 1939–45, The Rise of Hitler’s Third Reich, the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II and The Military Atlas of World War II. He died in 2008.

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