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1) U-505
Author
Publisher
Lucknow Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Admiral Daniel V. Gallery boarded and captured a German U-Boat at sea in June, 1944 -- the first American officer to so capture an enemy warship since 1815! U-505 is Admiral Gallery's own story of his extraordinary feat -- and also a gripping narrative of the fierce Allied war against the German U-Boat fleet. "EXCELLENT." -- Chicago Tribune "Terrific ... the first-hand story of Uncle Sam's U-Boat killers." -- Chicago Daily News "Brimming with thrills."...
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Goulty tells the story from the perspective of the ordinary sailor or officer who was there."--The Northern Mariner Although many books have been written about naval actions during the Second World War - histories and memoirs in particular - few books have attempted to encompass the extraordinary variety of the experience of the war at sea. That is why James Goulty’s vivid survey is of such value. Sailors in the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In May 1943, Allied sea and air forces won a stunning, dramatic, and vital victory over the largest and most powerful submarine force ever sent to sea, sinking forty-one German U-boats and damaging thirty-seven others. It was the forty-fifth month of World War II, and by the end of May the Germans were forced to acknowledge defeat and recall almost all of their remaining U-boats from the major traffic lanes of the North Atlantic. At U-Boat Headquarters...
4) Red Star Under the Baltic: A First-Hand Account of Life on Board a Soviet Submarine in World War Two
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"A rare memoir of underwater warfare in the treacherous Baltic. Red Star Under The Baltic is the gripping memoir of a Soviet submariner during his years at sea in the Baltic during the Second World War. Not only is this a superb record of the appalling conditions endured on these basic craft, but a very human account detailing the comradeship and tensions among the crew as they operated in the most life-threatening conditions. Viktor Korzh vividly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"For his latest book Colonel Roy Stanley presents aerial photographs of the German and Italian fleets that were selected as important six decades ago and have long lain dormant, unindexed and unexplained. Extensive use of aerial and other Intelligence imagery from long retired files would be enough to make this book a must for those intrigued by World War II intelligence and naval history. But it is the author's commentary that makes this work truly...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Examines the facts of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, and provides a new critical analysis and conclusionsWithin hours of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a submarine off the Cork coast in May 1915, a narrative was created and over time, emerged as the "truth" of the incident. Throughout the world many people still today perceive the sinking of the Lusitania was a savage attack on an innocent vessel that brought America into the war. In his new...
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The Knight's Cross (Ritterkreuz) was one of the highest decorations given for extreme acts of valor to all ranks of the German armed forces during the Second World War. Few awards captured the respect and admiration of the German public as the Knight's Cross - it was the greatest honor one could achieve. In the perilous and close-knit world of the U-boat crews the award of the decoration to their captain was an event of particular pride and sometimes...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Although only 23 years old at the time of publication, Theodore Roosevelt made his mark as a military scholar with this detailed analysis of naval combat between the United States and Great Britain from 1812--15. Engagingly written and comprehensively researched, The Naval War of 1812 exercised considerable influence on the formation of the modern American Navy and remains a cornerstone work in its field. Drawing upon official documents, letters,...
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Language
English
Description
“A definitive introduction by a highly recognized authority who writes beautifully and clearly.” —Naval Historical Foundation
The fact that German submarines almost managed to cut off Britain’s vital imports during the First World War hadn’t been forgotten by Hitler—and when, in 1935, he repudiated the Treaty of Versailles, Britain, magnanimously, signed an Anglo-German Naval Agreement. This allowed the Germans
...The fact that German submarines almost managed to cut off Britain’s vital imports during the First World War hadn’t been forgotten by Hitler—and when, in 1935, he repudiated the Treaty of Versailles, Britain, magnanimously, signed an Anglo-German Naval Agreement. This allowed the Germans
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The full story of one of the greatest Allied shipping losses of World War II For the first time, this book describes how U-482 managed to slip undetected into the busy shipping lanes of the North Channel and carry out the last great U-boat patrol of the war. In the autumn of 1944 World War II was coming to an end, and the U-boats in the Atlantic had been beaten back through a massive program of Allied shipbuilding combined with tactical, technological,...
Author
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A historic account of the US Navy's cramped, outdated submarine that was forced to remain in service during World War II. Constructed in 1923, the American submarine S39 was practically an antique when the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor in 1941. With defective torpedoes, a semi-trained crew, and a primitive ventilation system (hence the nickname), she nevertheless sank two enemy vessels and eluded pursuit to fight again in the Solomons. This is the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucknow Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Hitler's U-Boats-German submarine aces tell their own stories of war and death under the sea. THEY LIVE WITH DEATH The silent death they deal to the ships above them...and the dark death that waits for them in the depths of the sea. These authentic reports by the top U-Boat commanders of World War II tell the vivid story of the terrors and triumphs of the war under the waves-its heroics and horrors, and the final defeat of Germany's most effective...
Series
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Dispatches in this volume include those relating to the sinking of the German battleship Graf Spee in the Battle of the River Plate in 1939, the loss of the battleships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse in the Far East, the sinking of the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst in 1943, the attack on Tirpitz by midget submarines, the contribution by British Pacific Fleet to the assault on Okinawa in 1945 (which included four Royal Navy battleships),...
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Series
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English
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"The hunting down and sinking of the magnificent German battle cruiser Scharnhorst was one of the epic actions of World War II . . stirring" ( Work Boat ). On December 25, 1943, the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst slipped out of Altenfjord in Norway to attack Arctic convoy JW55B which was carrying vital war supplies to the Soviet Union. But British naval intelligence knew of the Scharnhorst 's mission before she sailed, and the vulnerable convoy...
Author
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"The realities of WWII underwater warfare come to life in this chronicle of a submarine sunk in the Philippines -- and the remarkable sailors who survived. The fate of the USS Flier is one of the most astonishing stories of the Second World War. On August 13, 1944, the submarine struck a mine and sank to the bottom of the Sulu Sea in less than one minute, leaving only fourteen of its crew of eighty-six hands alive. After enduring eighteen hours in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Otbebookpublishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Foreword: "For 11 years, I was closely associated with the Cairo project, and I know how difficult it is to place the undertaking in its proper perspective and to dispassionately evaluate its historical significance. I was accordingly delighted to learn that Virgil Carrington Jones, who needs no introduction to readers interested in Civil War partisan operations and action afloat, had agreed to chronicle the story of the Cairo and her rendezvous with...
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating and detailed account of the German navy's war, mostly covering U-boat activities" by the man who succeeded Hitler as Fuhrer ( Damien Burke, author of TSR2: Britain's Lost Bomber ). This is the story of the last world war, as told by Grand Admiral Karl Döenitz himself. His memoir covers his early career with submarines in the First World War and follows both his successes and failures through the Second World War, with great detail...
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Language
English
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Description
First published in 1882, "The Naval War of 1812" is the first book by future United States president Theodore Roosevelt. Written two years after he graduated from Harvard, this seminal study of naval strategy was the culmination of several years of research by Roosevelt that he began while a college student. The book examines the naval battles between the United States and Great Britain during the War of 1812 and presents the facts in an unbiased...
19) Submariner
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Another epic Second World War adventure from the author of the Nicholas Everard naval thrillers. As captain of the submarine Ursa , Lieutenant Mike Nicholson's mission is to disrupt the flow of war supplies to Rommel 's Afrika Korps. Although Ursa is small, slow and often out-gunned, she succeeds, on her seventeenth Mediterranean cruise, in sinking a German tank-transporter. That triumph makes Mike top of the league - he has now sunk more tonnage...
Publisher
Casemate Publishers (Ignition)
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
From the naval battle of Guadalcanal to rescuing George Bush Sr. in the Pacific, here are the stories of US submariners in WWII. The Silent Service in World War II tells the story of America's intrepid submarine warriors in the words of the men who served and fought in the Pacific against Japan. When Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941, the enemy had already deployed naval forces, but the United States was soon able to match them. By 1943, new Gato-class...
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