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2) Wolf packs
Publisher
Time-Life
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the rise and eventual fall of Nazi Germany. Contents: Birth of the "U-boat peril" --A time for aces--Expanding the killing ground--The last, furious gasp.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
The Bismarck was the fabled German battleship of World War II. Traces the "life" of the Bismarck from its launching (courtesy of newsreel footage) through its many battles and narrow escapes, concluding with its far-from-inevitable sinking in the Spring of 1941. The story concentrates on the human element, specifically a British intelligence captain, who has lost his family in the London blitz and thus has a personal reason for seeing the Bismarck...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this engaging narrative, brought to life by marine artist Ian Marshall's beautiful full-color paintings, historian Paul Kennedy grapples with the rise and fall of the Great Powers during World War II. Tracking the movements of the six major navies of the Second World War--the allied navies of Britain, France, and the United States and the Axis navies of Germany, Italy, and Japan--Kennedy tells a story of naval battles, maritime campaigns, convoys,...
10) 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
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, "in harm's way." John Paul Jones is more than a great sea story. Jones is a character for the ages. John Adams called him the "most ambitious and intriguing officer in the American...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
As the war in the Pacific heats up in 1945, Private Clay Adams dreams of finding glory like his brother, while Admiral Chester Nimitz struggles to unite rival army and marine commanders so they can defeat the Japanese and end the war.
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...
17) Das boot
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
Deutsch
Description
Follows the daring patrol of U-96, one of the famed German U-boats known as the "gray wolves."
18) Greyhound
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way across the icy North Atlantic from America to England. There, they will deliver desperately needed supplies, but only if they can make it through the wolfpack of German submarines that awaits and outnumbers them in the perilous seas. For forty eight hours, Krause will play a desperate cat and mouse game against the...
19) 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
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
At the height of the Vietnam War, Brian Holcomb, an ambitious young naval officer, discovers serious problems aboard the guided missile ship on which he is serving--problems which make the ship vulnerable to a potentially deadly air assault by the North Vietnamese, and which her captain seems unwilling or unable to address.
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