Iron Coffins

Author : Herbert A. Werner
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306811609
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iron Coffins written by Herbert A. Werner and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2002-06-06 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former German U-boat commander Herbert Werner navigates readers through the waters of World War II, recounting four years of the most significant and savage battles. By war's end, 28,000 out of 39,000 German sailors had disappeared beneath the waves.

Author : David A. Mindell
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421406055
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iron Coffin written by David A. Mindell and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The USS Monitor famously battled the CSS Virginia (the armored and refitted USS Merrimack) at Hampton Roads in March 1862. This updated edition of David A. Mindell's classic account of the ironclad warships and the human dimension of modern warfare commemorates the 150th anniversary of this historic encounter. Mindell explores how mariners—fighting "blindly," below the waterline—lived in and coped with the metal monster they called the "iron coffin." He investigates how the ironclad technology, new to war in the nineteenth century, changed not only the tools but also the experience of combat and anticipated today’s world of mechanized, pushbutton warfare. The writings of William Frederick Keeler, the ship’s paymaster, inform much of this book, as do the experiences of everyman sailor George Geer, who held Keeler in some contempt. Mindell uses their compelling stories, and those of other shipmates, to recreate the thrills and dangers of living and fighting aboard this superweapon. Recently, pieces of the Monitor wreck have been raised from their watery grave, and with them, information about the ship continues to be discovered. A new epilogue describes the recovery of the Monitor turret and its display at the USS Monitor Museum in Newport News, Virginia. This sensitive and enthralling history of the USS Monitor ensures that this fateful ship, and the men who served on it, will be remembered for generations to come.

Author : Esq. Oliver ODDFISH (pseud.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iron Coffins, dead wives and disasters after death; or, the very hard case of deceased Mrs. Gubbins. Faithfully detailed by Oliver Oddfish, Esq. [In verse.] written by Esq. Oliver ODDFISH (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lee Moller
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525506803
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The God Con written by Lee Moller and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-06-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crucifix is in! You can fool most of the people most of the time. In The God Con, Lee Moller, a life-long atheist and skeptic, looks at organized religion through the lens of the con. Organized religion has been selling an invisible product, that it never has to deliver, for thousands of years. It has given us bigotry, rampant pedophilia, terrorism, and bloodshed beyond imagining. And its acolytes have, in turn, given organized religion power over their bank accounts, their reproduction, and their very “souls”.

Author : John Mannock
Publisher : Signet Book
ISBN 13 : 9780451211408
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iron Coffin written by John Mannock and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wounded Nazi Germany U-boat limps toward the coast of Louisiana, where the crew's only chance of survival rests with an isolated clan of Cajuns who do not recognize any government nor the war. Original.

Author : Ida Milne
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526122723
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stacking the coffins written by Ida Milne and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1918–19 influenza epidemic killed more than 50 million people, and infected between one fifth and half of the world's population. It is the world's greatest killing influenza pandemic, and is used as a worst case scenario for emerging infectious disease epidemics like the corona virus COVID-19. It decimated families, silenced cities and towns as it passed through, stilled commerce, closed schools and public buildings and put normal life on hold. Sometimes it killed several members of the same family. Like COVID-19 there was no preventative vaccine for the virus, and many died from secondary bacterial pneumonia in this pre-antibiotic era. In this work, Ida Milne tells how it impacted on Ireland, during a time of war and revolution. But the stories she tells of the harrowing impact on families, and of medicine's desperate search to heal the ill, could apply to any other place in the world at the time.

Author : Jordan Vause
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612513808
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U-Boat Ace written by Jordan Vause and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2001-11-02 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exceptional figure in the history of the German Navy, Wolfgang Luth was one of only seven men in the Wehrmacht to win Germany's highest combat decoration, the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds. At one time or another he operated in almost every theater of the undersea war, from Norway to the Indian Ocean, and became the second most successful German U-boat ace in World War II, sinking more than 220,000 tons of merchant shipping. A master in the art of military leadership, Luth was the youngest man to be appointed to the rank of captain and the youngest to become commandant of the German Naval Academy. Nevertheless, his accomplishments were overshadowed by those of other great aces, such as Prien, Kretschmer, and Topp. The publication of this book in hardcover in 1990 marked the first comprehensive study of Luth's life. Jordan Vause corrects the long neglect by providing an entertaining and authoritative biography that places the ace in the context of the war at sea. This new paperback edition includes corrections and additional information collected by the author over the past decade.

Author : Hans Goebeler
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 1611210070
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steel Boat, Iron Hearts written by Hans Goebeler and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2005-01-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the German submarine U-505 and its dramatic capture by the US Navy during WWII—told by one of its crewmen. Hans Goebeler is known as the man who “pulled the plug” on U-505 in 1944 to keep his beloved U-boat out of Allied hands. Steel Boat, Iron Hearts is his no-holds-barred account of service aboard a combat U-boat. It is the only full-length memoir of its kind, and Goebeler was aboard for every one of U-505’s war patrols. Using his own experiences, log books, and correspondence with other U-boat crewmen, Goebeler offers rich and very personal details about what life was like in the German Navy under Hitler. Because his first and last posting was to U-505, Goebeler’s perspective of the crew, commanders, and war patrols paints a vivid and complete portrait unlike any other to come out of the Kriegsmarine. He witnessed it all: from deadly sabotage efforts that almost sunk the boat to the tragic suicide of the only U-boat commander who took his life during WWII; from the terror and exhilaration of hunting the enemy to the seedy brothels of France. The vivid, honest, and smooth-flowing prose calls it like it was and pulls no punches. U-505 was captured by Captain Dan Gallery’s Guadalcanal Task Group 22.3 on June 4, 1944. Trapped by this “Hunter-Killer” group, U-505 was depth-charged to the surface, strafed by machine gun fire, and boarded. It was the first enemy ship captured at sea since the War of 1812. Today, hundreds of thousands of visitors tour U-505 each year at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. Includes photos and a special Introduction by Keith Gill, Curator of U-505, Museum of Science and Industry

Author : Dale Power
Publisher : Schiffer Craft
ISBN 13 : 9780764303371
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Do-It-Yourself Coffins for Pets and People written by Dale Power and published by Schiffer Craft. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the tools and techniques of coffin-making, and features illustrated, step-by-step instructions for constructing three pet and three human-sized coffins. Includes patterns.

Author : Chris Woodyard
Publisher : Kestrel Publications (OH)
ISBN 13 : 9780962847202
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted Ohio written by Chris Woodyard and published by Kestrel Publications (OH). This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Ohio ghost stories and ghostlore from Native American tales to contemporary haunted houses.