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| 3803 | PARGETER, C. J. Hipper Class Heavy Cruisers. 80p., illus. London: Ian Allan, 1982. ISBN: 0711011788.
A technical and operational account of the elegant heavy cruisers. |
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| 3804 | PEILLARD, Leonce. Sink the Tirpitz! 360p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Cape; New York: Putnam, 1968.
A graphic and lively account of the various British attacks aimed at removing this major threat from the Norwegian fiords. |
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| 3805 | SCHMALENBACH, Paul. German Battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau (Profile Warship, 33). 201–224pp., illus. Windsor: Profile Publications, 1973.
A mainly technical description of the two ships by a former gunnery officer. |
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| 3806 | SCHMALENBACH, Paul. Kriegsmarine Bismarck (Profile Warship, 18). 121–144pp., illus. Windsor: Profile Publications, 1972.
A full description of the ship, with a brief history. |
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| 3807 | SCHMALENBACH, Paul. Kriegsmarine Prinz Eugen (Profile Warship, 6). 121–144pp., illus. Windsor: Profile Publications, 1971.
A full description and brief history. |
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| 3808 | VON MULLENHEIM-RECHBERG, Burkard. Battleship Bismarck: A Survivor's Story. xiii, 290p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis: NIP, 1980: London: Bodley Head, 1981. ISBN: 0370303903.
The senior survivor of Bismarck, who served in her throughout her career, gives his view of the ship's story. |
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| 3809 | VULLIEZ, Albert, & MORDAL, Jacques. Battleship Scharnhorst.255p., illus., index. London: Hutchinson; Fair Lawn: Essential Books, 1958.
Two well-known French naval historians describe the grand but finally tragic career of the ship. |
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| 3810 | WHITLEY, M. J. Destroyer! German Destroyers in World War 2. 310p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Arms & Armour; Annapolis: NIP, 1983. ISBN: 0853682585.
An extremely full account. An expanded edition entitled German Destroyers of World War Two was published in 1994. |
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| 3811 | WHITLEY, M. J. German Capital Ships of World War Two. 224p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Arms & Armour, 1989. ISBN: 0853689709.
Encyclopaedic coverage. |
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| 3812 | WHITLEY, M. J. German Cruisers of World War Two. 176p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Arms & Armour; Annapolis: NIP, 1985. ISBN: 0853687463.
A design and operational history of impeccable detail. |
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| 3813 | WHITLEY, M. J. The "Type 35" Torpedoboats of the Kriegsmarine. 24p., illus. Kendal: World Ship Society, 1986. ISBN: 0905617398.
These were small fast vessels of about 1000 tonnes numbered T1–T12 which saw much action in coastal waters. Gives operational details as well as plans. |
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| 3814 | WOODWARD, David. The Tirpitz: The Story, Including the Destruction of the Scharnhorst, of the Campaigns Against the German Battleship. 223p., bibliog., illus. London: Kimber, 1953; New York: Norton, 1954.
An early history of this powerful ship. US title: The Tirpitz and the Battle for the North Atlantic. |
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| 3815 | ZETTERLING, Niklas. Tirpitz: the Life and Death of Germany's Last Super Battleship. 360p., bibliog., illus. Newbury: Casemate, 2009. ISBN: 1935149180.
The Tirpitz was a looming presence in Northern Europe. A fresh look at her impact. |
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| 3816 | ALEXANDER, Roy. Sea Prison and Shore Hell: The Cruise of the Raider Atlantis, from the Diary of Jim Creagh, Merchant Seaman. 199p., frontis. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1942.
Tells all that was known of the Atlantis at that time. Creagh was on the Commissaire Ramel when she was sunk. He was eventually landed in Italian Somaliland, from which he was rescued by the British advance into the area. |
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| 3817 | BARLEY, Geoffrey Alan. Caught by a Nazi Raider. 77p., frontis. London: New Zealand Shipping Company, 1941. The Engineer Officer of the Rangitane tells of her sinking and his capture on 27 November 1940, in the Pacific. The prisoners were eventually landed on Emirau Island, from which they were rescued. Compare the account of Sandbach. |
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| 3818 | BRENNECKE, H. J. Ghost Cruiser HK 33: Written with the c-ooperation of Survivors, including Lieutenant Helmut Hanefeld, Assistant Ship's Surgeon Dr. Hasselman and Chief Quartermaster Ernst Neumeister. 208, [6]p., illus. London: Kimber; New York: Crowell, 1954.
Pinguin was the most successful of the German raiders, until she was caught by Cornwall in the Indian Ocean. US title: Cruise of the Raider HK 33. |
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| 3819 | DETMERS, Theodor. The Raider Kormoran.206, [2]p., illus. London: Kimber, 1959.
The author was Captain of the raider Kormoran, one of the raiders used successfully by the Kriegsmarine. She was sunk by the Australian cruiser Sydney. |
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| 3820 | DUFFY, James P. Hitler's Secret Pirate Fleet: The Deadliest Ships of World War II. xiv, bibliog., illus., index. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001. ISBN: 0803266529.
A ship by ship retelling of the cruises of the nine commerce raiders. |
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| 3821 | EDWARDS, Bernard. Beware Raiders! German Surface Raiders in the Second World War. [v], 216p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 2001. ISBN: 0850528038.
In fact a retelling of the career of the Admiral Hipper as a commerce raider and of the cruise of the Pinguin in 1940-41. |
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| 3822 | GIBSON, Charles. Death of a Phantom Raider: The Gamble that Triumphed and Failed, Atlantic, 1942–3. 240p., illus., index. London: Hale, 1987. ISBN: 0709029470.
An expansion of his earlier work, The Ship with Five Names, covering the career of the British tramp Speybank which was captured by the raider Atlantis, and then began her next career as the German disguised minelayer Doggerbank. |
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