Author: United States. National Archives and Records ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Documents on microfilm
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
U-boats and T-boats, 1914-1918
Author: United States. National Archives and Records ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Documents on microfilm
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
U-boats and T-boats, 1914-1918
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Documents in microform
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The U-Boat War, 1914–1918
Author: Edwyn GrayPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473820049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
A history of Germany’s usage of submarine warfare during World War I, by the author of Operation Pacific. In 1914, U-Boats were a new and untried weapon, and when such a weapon can bring a mighty empire to the brink of defeat there is a story worth telling. Edwyn Gray’s The U-Boat War is the history of the Kaiser’s attempt to destroy the British Empire by a ruthless campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare. It opens with Germany’s first tentative experiments with the submarines and climaxes with the naval mutiny that helped bring down the Kaiser. In between is a detailed account of a campaign of terror which, by April, 1917, had the British Empire on the verge of surrender. The cost in lives and equipment was staggering. On the German side, 4,894 sailors and 515 officers lost their lives in action; 178 German Submarines were destroyed by the allies; 14 were scuttled and 122 surrendered. According to the most reliable sources, 5,708 ships were destroyed by the U-Boats and 13,333 non-combatants perished in British Ships. World figures for civilian casualties were never released. The U-Boat War is a savage but thrilling account of men fighting for their lives beneath the sea, and of the boats that changed the face of naval warfare.
The Killing Time
Author: Edwyn GrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This is the German side of submarines during WW1. What were the moral issues on both sides?
Dead Wake
Author: Erik LarsonPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 0553446754
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
#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
U-boats and T-boats, 1914-1918
Author: United States. National Archives and Records ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Documents in microform
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
U-boat Intelligence
Author: Robert McQueen GrantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Kaiser's U-Boat Assault on America
Author: Hans Joachim KoerverPublisher: Pen and Sword Military
ISBN: 1526773899
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A deeply researched and engaging account of the use of U-Boats in the First World War. The focus touches on both diplomatic and economic aspects as well as the tactical and strategic use of the U-boats. The book also examines the role played by US president Woodrow Wilson and his response to American shipping being sunk by U-boats and how that ultimately forced his hand to declare war on Germany.
The Log of a U-boat Commander
Author: Ernst HashagenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
U-Boat War 1914-1918
Author: James B. ConnollyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781846774584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The first account is by a journalist reporting for Colliers Magazine as he accompanied the United States destroyer force in the final year of the war. The second account is a fictional work written by Sir Stephen King-Hall.