Download or read book Battlecruiser Iv written by David SchLeifer and published by Author House. This book was released on 2004-10-28 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COMMANDER... OF HONOR A CREW... OF HEROIC COURAGE AN ENEMY... OF LETHAL CUNNING Our most desperate time is at hand. The Drazakii war machine moves through the stars, crushing one fleet after another. Now after yet another defeat, the Earth Empire faces their ultimate challenge. For as yet have the Drazakians landed on any of our colony worlds... until now! Face with desperation, the Earth Imperial Navy has no choice but to commit a damaged task force led by the battle scared Battlecruiser Pegasus. With minimal repairs to her hull and to the rest of her escort ships, the sixteen ship task force is all that stands in the way of the Rigel Colony, and ninety Drazakian warships of their Third Armada.
Download or read book Battlecruiser V Battle Cry written by David Schleifer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-05-23 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth installment of the Battlecruiser Books continues the adventures of the crew of the Battlecruiser Pegasus and the Task Force 1-Able. Saatori is back! He has a new plan as he taps into the memory of his exploits from the attempt of stealing the Battlecruiser Equus and the start of the war. Now he is designing and building two Drazakii warships, Battlecruisers! The Kraken and the Medusa are designed for a purpose and one purpose only; to destroy the Battlecruiser Pegasus. Meanwhile, fleet command has handed Commander Janice Anders Daria and the Battlecruiser Pegasus its biggest mission, to hunt down the Drazakian Third Armada and find the secret base where Saatori is building his new weapon. The Passion of war continues...
Download or read book Battle on the Seven Seas written by Gary Staff and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-06-13 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This concise and well-written book will serve as a valuable library addition for anyone interested in the naval activities of the Great War.” —Sea Classics The cruisers of the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserlische Marine) were active throughout the First World War and saw action all around the globe, tying up valuable Allied naval resources out of all proportion to their number. Drawing on firsthand accounts and original research in German archives, the author here describes in detail some of their most significant and/or audacious battles. Some are well known, such as their role at Jutland, Goeben’s attack on the Russian fleet (which brought Turkey into the war) and the sagas of Konigsberg and Emden; but others have been unduly neglected. Gary Staff deliberately focuses on the latter to bring new material to the attention of the reader and to demonstrate the global span of the cruisers’ activities. The blow-by-blow accounts of the action (drawing heavily on firsthand Allied and especially German accounts) are supported by dozens of photographs, many previously unpublished, from the author’s own impressive collection. The battles described include: Heligoland Bight, August 1914; Coronel, November 1914; Falklands December, 1914; Doggerbank, January 1915; Goeben and the Russian fleet, Black Sea, May 1915; Ostergarn July 1915; Jutland, 1916; Second Heligoland Bight, November 1917; Imbros, January 1918. “This is likely to become the definitive account of the cruiser war and will be essential reading for anyone interested in developing a comprehensive understanding of the naval warfare from 1914-1918.” —Firetrench
Download or read book Fukuda s Five written by David Schleifer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-07-08 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His name is Ken Fukuda, retired from EarthGov, code name Kanji, he is about to discover the hidden truth to his existance. Her code name is Glyph, she found out her truth through the dreams, and now she is out to reveal it to the world. His name is Rune, his mission is to bury the truth at all costs. In the traditions of near-future espionage action thrillers like Minority Report and Total Recall comes this hard hitting spectacular branching across a future Earth, Mars and to the lunar Moon. Prepare to be revealed the truth of Fukuda's Five.
Download or read book The Battlecruiser HMS Hood written by Bruce Taylor and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wonderfully illustrated biography” of one of history’s greatest warships whose sinking “signaled the end of the surety that Britannia ruled the waves” (War History Online). Unmatched for beauty, unequalled for size, for twenty years the HMS Hood was the glory ship of the Royal Navy, flying the flag across the world in the twilight years of the British Empire. Here, in words, photos and color illustrations, is the story of her life, her work and her people from keel-laying on the Clyde in 1916 to destruction at the hands of the Bismarck in 1941. Among the eyecatching strengths of the book is a unique gallery of photos, including stills from a recently discovered piece of color footage of the ship, plus a spectacular set of computer-generated images of both the exterior and interior by the world’s leading exponent of the art—a man who worked with the film director James Cameron (of Titanic fame). A wealth of new information on Hood’s structure and operation make it essential reading for the enthusiast, modeler and historian alike. Hugely successful from its first publication, this is the third printing of the ultimate book on the ultimate ship of the pre-war era. “The most comprehensive study of a modern warship ever undertaken.”—Warship World
Download or read book Sink the Tirpitz 1942 44 written by Angus Konstam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of an air campaign in which each bomb could dramatically influence the course of the war. In January 1942, the powerful German battleship Tirpitz sailed into her new base in a Norwegian fjord, within easy reach of the Arctic Convoys. Her destruction suddenly became a top Allied priority. But sinking a modern and formidably armed battleship was no easy task, especially when she lay secure in a remote, mountainous fjord, protected by anti-torpedo nets, radar, flak guns and smoke generators. This book charts the full, complex story of the air war against Tirpitz, from the Fleet Air Arm's failed torpedo attack at sea, the RAF's early Halifax raids, and the carrier-borne Barracuda airstrikes of Operations Mascot, Tungsten and Goodwood, to the three Tallboy attacks that finally crippled and sank her. With detailed maps and diagrams, it explains the aircraft and ordnance the British had to work with, the evolving strategic situation, and why the task was so difficult.
Download or read book German Battlecruisers of World War One written by Gary Staff and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most comprehensive, English-language study of the German Imperial Navy’s battlecruisers that served in the First World War. Known as Panzerkreuzer, literally “armored cruiser,” the eight ships of the class were to be involved in several early North Sea skirmishes before the great pitched battle of Jutland where they inflicted devastating damage on the Royal Navy’s battlecruiser fleet. This book details their design and construction, and traces the full service history of each ship, recounting their actions, drawing largely from first-hand German sources and official documents, many previously unpublished in English.
Download or read book A History of the Great War written by John Buchan and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Battleships of the Scharnhorst Class written by Gerard Koop and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The warships of the World War II era German Navy are among the most popular subject in naval history with an almost uncountable number of books devoted to them. However, for a concise but authoritative summary of the design history and careers of the major surface ships it is difficult to beat a series of six volumes written by Gerhard Koop and illustrated by Klaus-Peter Schmolke. Each contains an account of the development of a particular class, a detailed description of the ships, with full technical details, and an outline of their service, heavily illustrated with plans, battle maps and a substantial collection of photographs. These have been out of print for ten years or more and are now much sought after by enthusiasts and collectors, so this new modestly priced reprint of the series will be widely welcomed.??Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, the subject of this volume, were the product of a long, involved and politically determined design process that saw them develop from an improved Pocket Battleship to what many described as a battlecruiser, although they were really fast battleships. They were the most active, and successful, of the Kriegesmarine's major warships, taking part in numerous famous operations, including the infamous 'Channel Dash'.
Download or read book Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland written by John Brooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-03-09 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book reviews critically recent studies of fire control, and describes the essentials of naval gunnery in the dreadnought era.With a foreword by Professor Andrew Lambert, it shows how, in 1913, the Admiralty rejected Arthur Pollen's Argo system for the Dreyer fire control tables.
Download or read book A History of the Great War From Caporetto to the armistice written by John Buchan and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harper s Pictorial Library of the World War written by Albert Bushnell Hart and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Battle of Jutland written by John Brooks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a major new account of the Battle of Jutland, the key naval battle of the First World War in which the British Grand Fleet engaged the German High Seas Fleet off the coast of Denmark in 1916. Beginning with the building of the two fleets, John Brooks reveals the key technologies employed, from ammunition, gunnery and fire control, to signalling and torpedoes, as well as the opposing commanders' tactical expectations and battle orders. In describing Jutland's five major phases, he offers important new interpretations of the battle itself and how the outcome was influenced by technology, as well as the tactics and leadership of the principal commanders, with the reliability of their own accounts of the fighting reassessed. The book draws on contemporary sources which have rarely been cited in previous accounts, including the despatches of both the British and German formations, along with official records, letters and memoirs.
Download or read book German High Seas Fleet 1914 18 written by Angus Konstam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superbly illustrated new account of how Germany's High Seas Fleet was built, operated and fought, as it challenged the world's most powerful navy in World War I. Seven years before the outbreak of World War I, the Imperial German Navy rebranded its Home Fleet as the Hochseeflotte, or High Seas Fleet. It was a force designed to take on the Royal Navy, then the world's most powerful, and for the next four years the North Sea would be their battleground. Drawing on extensive research, Angus Konstam offers the reader a concise, fully illustrated account of how the entire High Seas Fleet was designed and built, how it operated, and how it fought. The fleet was a modern, balanced force of dreadnought battleships, battlecruisers, cruisers and torpedo boats, using Zeppelins and U-boats for reconnaissance. The ultimate test between them came in May 1916, when they clashed at Jutland. Packed with spectacular original artwork, maps, 3D diagrams and archive photos, it explains how and why the fleet was built, its role, and how and why it fought as it did. From fighting doctrine and crew training to intelligence, logistics, and gunnery, this book is an essential guide to the Kaiser's audacious bid for naval glory.
Download or read book Battle of Jutland 30th May to 1st June 1916 written by Great Britain. Admiralty and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spying on the World written by Richard J Aldrich and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 20 case studies explore key moments in the Joint Intelligence Committee's history, from WWII to the War in Iraq, and from the Falklands War to the IRA. Each case study includes an introduction, a full reproduction of an original JIC document that influenc
Download or read book The Battle of Jutland written by Richard Osborne and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Jutland was the greatest naval engagement of the First World War, if not any war. Admiral Scheer had adopted a policy of launching attacks against the British coast. What he did not know was that the British had broken his naval codes and that they knew of his plans. Consequently, when Scheer threw his entire fleet in a mission to attack the British mainland in May 1916, he could not know that the Royal Navy at Scapa Flow were underway.This is a fresh account of this greatest naval engagement, it offers fascinating insight into the events preceding the action, the tactics during the battle and the political and military fall-out. The book draws on released official records and personal accounts.Jellicoe failed to ensnare Scheer and the bulk of the German fleet which escaped battered, but intact. The Germans knew however that despite their great fleet, it was the Royal Navy that controlled the North Sea.
