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Author : James P. Duffy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sinking of the Laconia and the U-Boat War written by James P. Duffy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with rich detail and analysis, this exciting tale of war at sea relates the dramatic and moving true story of the sinking of the British liner Laconia and its consequences for the conduct of marine warfare. Duffy discusses in rich detail the dire and dramatic true story of the sinking of the British Liner Laconia by the dreaded U-Boat 156, a vessel crowded with 1800 Italian POWs, 103 Polish soldiers, and 463 officers and crew. As Laconia went down, U-156 surfaced and sent a signal that brought two other U-boats, an Italian submarine, and three Vichy French warships to assist with rescue operations. But on the morning of September 16, a U.S. bomber flew over U-156, now packed with several hundred Laconia survivors. The crew unfurled a large Red Cross flag. Nevertheless, the submarine was attacked. The Laconia survivors were ordered over the side into lifeboats. Damaged, U-156 left the area as other U-boats commenced rescue operations. In the wake of the incident, German Admiral Karl Donitz issued the Laconia Order demanding that all attempts to rescue Allied survivors of merchant ships be ended. The order provoked an international outcry against inhumane treatment of survivors stranded at sea. In the aftermath of the war, Donitz was charged and acquitted of war crimes in connection with this order.

Author : Estate Of Kenneth M Beyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781591146339
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Q-Ships Versus U-Boats written by Estate Of Kenneth M Beyer and published by . This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basing his narrative upon research, his own experiences aboard the USS Asterion, and conjecture, U.S. Navy officer Beyer reconstructs the events of the confrontations of the U.S. warships USS Asterion and USS Atik (Disguised as merchant marines in an ill-fated attempt to counter German submarine warfare) with the German navy during World War II.

Author : Gordon Williamson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780965710
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U-boats of the Kaiser's Navy written by Gordon Williamson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As was the case in World War II, one of the greatest threats to Britain during World War I was the German U-boat menace. This book traces the development of the U-boat threat from the Brandtaucher, designed by Wilhelm Bauer, the father of the German submarine arm, in 1850, through to the commissioning of Germany's first U-boat to go into service, the U-1, in 1906. It then covers the main types of World War I U-boat, detailing the operational history of the U-boat service in depth, with a particular focus on the campaigns in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, as well as the slow build up of anti-submarine measures by the allies.

Author : Bob Carruthers
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 147384651X
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The U-Boat War in the Atlantic, 1939–1941 written by Bob Carruthers and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in the trilogy that covers WWII submarine warfare in the Atlantic from the German perspective—edited by the Emmy Award-winning historian and author. The U-Boat war is a unique visual record of Hitler’s infamous submarine fleet and a grim account of those that lived, worked and risked their lives stalking the depths of the Atlantic and Mediterranean seas. This book analyzes the development of the U-boat, the recruitment and training, and reveals how the crews tried to destroy essential Allied supplies across the Atlantic and bring Britain to its knees. Using some 250 rare and unpublished photographs together with detailed captions and accompanying text, the book provides an outstanding insight into the various operations and the claustrophobic existence of the crew, where they lived in cramped and often deplorable conditions. It depicts how this potent force became one of the most dominant German fighting units during World War Two and became such a worry to Allied shipping that even Winston Churchill himself claimed that the “U-boat peril” was the only thing that ever really frightened him during the war. On their defeat hung the outcome of the war, and through courageous and determined resistance against overwhelming odds, the Allies eventually inflicted such catastrophic damage on the U-boats that the losses were too great to continue. Of the 38,000 men that went to sea onboard these deadly vessels, only 8,000 were to survive to tell the tale.

Author : Brian Benson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780448007281
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ships written by Brian Benson and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The content of the books provides information of historical first boats structure used by ancients to the modern specialized and experimental ships.

Author : James P. Duffy
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803245408
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sinking of the Laconia and the U-Boat War written by James P. Duffy and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Santa Barbara, California: Praeger/ABC-CLIO, 2009.

Author : Michael L. Hadley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773508019
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U-Boats Against Canada written by Michael L. Hadley and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1990-07 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U-boats constituted a serious threat to North American security and a major challenge to coastal and convoy defence. Hadley reveals the military and political impact on Canada of in-shore submarine warfare and vibrantly documents the successful German strategy of deploying daring long-range solo sorties to pin down the enemy close to home.

Author : Erik Larson
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0553446754
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Wake written by Erik Larson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania “Both terrifying and enthralling.”—Entertainment Weekly “Thrilling, dramatic and powerful.”—NPR “Thoroughly engrossing.”—George R.R. Martin On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era’s great transatlantic “Greyhounds”—the fastest liner then in service—and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger’s U-boat, but told no one. As U-20 and the Lusitania made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces both grand and achingly small—hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more—all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history. It is a story that many of us think we know but don’t, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love. Gripping and important, Dead Wake captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster whose intimate details and true meaning have long been obscured by history. Finalist for the Washington State Book Award • One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Miami Herald, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, LibraryReads, Indigo

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warships, U-boats & Liners written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Greentree
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782002855
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Q Ship vs U-Boat written by David Greentree and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Q ships came in all shapes and sizes – coastal steamer, trawler, barque, yacht or schooner – but all had to look harmless in order to lure their opponents to the surface and encourage them to attack. Armaments differed according to ship size; steamers commonly had 4in guns mounted amidships and in the bow, trawlers 3-pdrs and sailing ships 12-pdrs. Those who served on Q ships had to accept that their U-boat opponents would be able to strike first. Q ship captains kept ready a 'panic crew', which was trained to act out an elaborate evacuation to convince the U-boat commander that the ship was being abandoned by its crew. The Q ship captain would remain behind with a handful of other crewmen manning the guns, which remained hidden until the most opportune time to unmask and engage the U-boat. The Q ship concept had emerged early in the war when no other method seemed likely to counter the U-boat threat, and flourished until new technologies and tactics were developed, tested and implemented.