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.
Download or read book The Laconia Affair written by Léonce Peillard and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Shipbuilding and Shipping Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shipbuilding Shipping Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Trial of the Germans written by Eugene Davidson and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines each of the defendants in the Nuremberg Trials, during which charges were brought against members of Hitler's Third Reich for wartime atrocities, and considers questions of whether the trials were necessary and just.
Download or read book The Sinking of the Laconia written by Frederick T Grossmith and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Common Enemy written by Jim McLoughlin and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I'll see the world,' Jim McLoughlin told his parents as he set off to join the Royal Navy in 1939. 'It'll be fun.' Months later, this Liverpool lad was sailing to war aboard the massive battleship HMS Valiant. He saw some of the world, but it wasn't fun. In One Common Enemy, he recounts how the chaos and carnage of war at sea in the Norwegian and Mediterranean campaigns led him to a fateful rendezvous with a much-loved ship from his boyhood, the passenger liner Laconia. Nostalgia turned to disaster when Laconia was torpedoed by a German U-boat in the South Atlantic. Despite a remarkable rescue attempt by a courageous, compassionate foe, Jim was condemned to a drifting lifeboat and a harrowing voyage of death and madness. One Common Enemy is a story of a desperate personal battle for survival, but also a moving narrative of innocence lost and a lifelong battle with confronting memories.
Download or read book Wolf Pack written by Gordon Williamson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive book, the wartime development of the U-Boat is traced along with the experiences of typical U-Boat crewmen, from recruitment to combat. Germany's World War II U-Boat fleet represented the elite of their naval personnel. In terms of technology, training, tactics and combat successes, the U-Boat Waffe was far superior to that of any other combatant nation. Gordon Williamson examines the operational tactics of the U-Boat fleet, as well as describing the massive bunkers that housed them. Wolf Pack contains material taken from Fortress 3: 'U-Boat Bases and Bunkers 1941-45', Warrior 36: 'Grey Wolf: U-Boat Crewman of World War II' and New Vanguards 51 and 55: 'Kriegsmarine U-Boat 1939-45 (1) and (2)', with the addition of a new section on wartime tactics.
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Download or read book So Close to Home written by Michael J Tougias and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 19, 1942, a U-boat in the Gulf of Mexico stalked its prey fifty miles from New Orleans. Captained by twenty nine-year-old Iron Cross and King's Cross recipient Erich Wurdemann, the submarine set its sights on the freighter Heredia with sixty-two souls on board. Most aboard were merchant seamen, but there were also a handful of civilians, including the Downs family: Ray and Ina, and their two children, eight-year-old Sonny and eleven-year-old Lucille. Fast asleep in their berths, the Downs family had no idea that two torpedoes were heading their way. When the ship exploded, chaos ensued—and each family member had to find their own path to survival. Including original, unpublished material from Commander Wurdemann’s war diary, the story provides balance and perspective by chronicling the daring mission of the U-boat—and its commander’s decision-making—in the Gulf of Mexico. An inspiring historical narrative, So Close to Home tells the story of the Downs family as they struggle against sharks, hypothermia, drowning, and dehydration in their effort to survive the aftermath of this deadly attack off the American coast.
Download or read book Atrocity Deviance and Submarine Warfare written by Nachman Ben-Yehuda and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of changing ethics, the submarine has inaugurated a new type of unrestricted naval warfare
Download or read book And they thought we wouldn t fight written by Floyd Phillips Gibbons and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "And they thought we wouldn't fight" is the wartime memoir of Floyd Gibbons, the war correspondent for the Chicago Tribune during World War I. Sent by the Tribune to England to cover the war, the book covers the dramatic events that led to the sinking of the ship he had sailed in, The Laconia. Gibbons was rescued and brought into Queenstown. He opened the cables and flashed to America the most powerful call to arms to the American people. It shook the country. It was the testimony of an eye witness and it accused the Imperial German Government, beyond all reasonable doubt, of the wilful and malicious murder of American citizens. The Gibbons story furnished the proof of the overt act and it was unofficially admitted at Washington that it was the determining factor in sending America into the war one month later.
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Download or read book Alarm written by Roberto Muylaert and published by Europa Edizioni. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “At the beginning of his first trip into combat, Werner suddenly realized what a difficult spot he had gotten himself into. There he was, a crew member of a vessel whose mission was to wander the depths of the sea, in a precarious existence for fifty-four men, all of whom were Germans, except for him, under the possibility of attacking or being attacked at any moment…” After three months of glorious missions, all ended in triumph, the Brazilian sailor, Werner Hoodhart proposes to his comrades to stop their U-199 at Praia Grande to enjoy a caipirinha. Alarm! offers in vivid and powerful details a deep insight into the submarine battles during World War II and a realistic representation not only of the life of soldiers on a sub but of Brazil from 1942. Roberto Muylaert was born in Santos, Brazil, in 1935, he is an expert in WWII, especially on the submarine war. He graduated from Mackenzie University in São Pauloas as a civil engineer, in 1959. Publisher, Editor, and Writer, started his journalistic career in 1964 at Editora Abril. Founder of RMC Editora, he also published magazines and books. He was also the President of the São Paulo Biennale, in 1984/85 and was elected President of ANER, the Association of Brazilian Magazines for four years. Among his nine books published, there’s another one related to the war besides Alarm! - called 1943, it deals with the visit of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the NorthEast of Brazil, during the war, to meet Getulio Vargas, Brazil’s President.
Download or read book Air University Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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