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U-boats offshore
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Edwin Palmer Hoyt |
We very nealy lost WWII. Not at pearl Harbor nor in the land battles of Europe, but on our own doorstep. This is the story of what happened in the early days of the war when Nazi U-boats were sent ag… |
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WW1 at Sea
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Victoria Carolan |
Images of WWI in the popular consciousness normally involve the bloody attrition of trench warfare, the miles of mud, the shattered earth, the tangled miles of barbed wire. However there was another … |
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Hitler's Naval War
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Cajus Bekker |
Bekker does a wonderful job highlighting the major surface and U-boat actions and, the somewhat lesser known actions of the German Kriegsmarine in WWII. As a intellegence officer in WWII, Bekker has … |
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Bismarck
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Niklas Zetterling |
320 pages : 24 cm |
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Exploring the Bismarck
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Robert D. Ballard |
Recreates the sea battle that sank the German battleship Bismarck in World War II and recounts how the shipwreck was discovered in 1989. |
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Shadow Divers
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Robert Kurson |
Shadow Divers is a riveting true adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery–and make history themselves.
For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler,… |
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Where divers dare
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Randall S. Peffer |
"In the tradition of Shadow Divers, this is the gripping true account of the search for German U-boat U-550, the last unfound, diveable wreck of a U-boat off the United States coast, and the battle i… |
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Grey wolves
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Philip Kaplan |
"In the early years of the Second World War, the elite force of German submariners known as the Ubootwaffe came perilously close to perfecting the underwater battle tactics and successfully cutting B… |
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The Mathews men
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William Geroux |
One of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coast against the men of the U.S. Merchant Marine who were supplying the European war, and one community… |
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Lusitania
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Diana Preston |
"On May 7, 1915, toward tbe end of her 101st eastbound crossing, from New York to Liverpool, England, R.M.S. Lusitania - pride of the Cunard Line and one of the greatest ocean liners afloat - became … |
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Robert Ballard's Bismarck
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Robert D. Ballard,Rick Archbold |
This book recreates the story of the British navy's sinking of the "Bismarck" and includes an account of the high-tech hunt for the "Bismarck" that culminated in its rediscovery. |
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Militärstrategie Deutschlands 1940-1945
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Heinz Magenheimer |
352 p. : 20 cm |
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Raiders of the Deep
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Lowell Thomas, Sr. |
This 1928 bestseller by the internationally renowned journalist Lowell Thomas was the first American account of German submariners to offer a sympathetic, behind-the-scenes look at the men who prowle… |
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The Diary of a U-boat Commander
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"I would ask you a favour," said the German captain, as we sat in the cabin of a U-boat which had just been added to the long line of bedraggled captives which stretched themselves for a mile or more… |
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Leopoldville
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Allan Andrade |
On Christmas Eve 1944, the Belgium troopship Leopoldville, left the pier at Southampton, England with over 2,000 American soldiers assigned to the 66th Infantry Division and crossed the English Chann… |
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The last voyages of the Waterford steamers
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Richard McElwee |
ssformby ship torpedoed by German u boat |
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If the gods are good
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Gerald Duskin |
ix, 270 p. : 21 cm |
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Gentlemen of war
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Dan van der Vat |
Details the adventures of the World War I German light cruiser the S.M.S. Emden and its captain Karl von Müller. |
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The Sinking of the Scharnhorst
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Fritz Otto Busch |
On Christmas Day, 1943, blinded by the fury of an Arctic blizzard, encircled by enemy destroyers, the German battleship Scharnhorst fought for her life. The luck of the Scharnhorst had become a legen… |
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Fiasco
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John Deane Potter |
It is an enthralling read of the two German Battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst along with the cruiser Prinz Eugen when they made their famous "dash" on 12th/13th February 1942 through the English … |
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