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| 3823 | GIBSON, Charles. The Ship with Five Names. 159p., illus., index. London: Abelard-Schumann, 1965.
The British tramp Speybank was captured by the raider Atlantis, and then began her next career as the German disguised minelayer Doggerbank. In March 1942 she was sunk in error by U 43 while attempting to reach Bordeaux. |
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| 3824 | HERLIN, Hans. The Survivor: The True Story of the Sinking of the Doggerbank. x, 163p., illus. London: Cooper, 1994. ISBN: 0850524091.
The story of Fritz Kuert, sole survivor of the sinking in error by U 43 of the blockade-runner Doggerbank. |
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| 3825 | HOYT, Edwin P. Raider 16. 255p., bibliog., illus., index. New York: World, 1970.
The cruise of the raider Atlantis, seen from the viewpoint of Captain Rogge, who is shown as a romantic and chivalrous hero. Republished by Avon Books in 1988. |
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| 3826 | JONES, Geoffrey P. Under Three Flags: The Story of Nordmark and the Armed Supply Ships of the German Navy. 256p., illus., index. London: Kimber, 1973. ISBN: 0718304926.
Although Nordmark had the more interesting wartime service, she was less famous than her notorious sister ship Altmark. The class was so successful that the survivors were taken over by the Allies in 1945. |
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| 3827 | LANGMAID, Kenneth. The Sea Raiders. xiii, 240p., illus., index. London: Jarrolds, 1963.
A history of the main German high seas raiders of both world wars. The second half of the book covers the story of everything from the Graf Spee to the Togo. |
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| 3828 | LUND, Alfred. The Raider and the Tramp. 96p., bibliog., illus. [Whitby: author], 1993. ISBN: 095152562X.
A lurid, passionate and sometimes difficult to follow study of the converted merchant raiders in general and of Widder's sinking of the s.s. Anglo-Saxon in particular. Such sinkings are seen as atrocities. |
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| 3829 | MOHR, Ulrich. Atlantis: The Story of a German Surface Raider, as told to A. V. Sellwood. xx, 246p., illus. London: Laurie, 1955; New York: John Day, 1956. A popular account by one of her crew of the successful career of one of the active fleet of German surface raiders, up to the time of her sinking. US title: Ship 16: The Story of the German Raider Atlantis. Reissued in the UK in 1972 by Hutchinson and in the US by Pinnacle in 1974 as Sea Raider Atlantis, then by Cerberus in 2005 as Phantom Raider: Nazi Germany's Most Successful Surface Raider, ISBN: 1841450286. |
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| 3830 | MUGGENTHALER, August Karl. German Raiders of World War 2. x, 308p., bibliog., illus., index. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1977; London: Hale, 1978. ISBN: 0709166834.
A good account of the very successful converted merchantmen, which preyed on the shipping lanes. |
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| 3831 | NOACK, Charles H. Adventure on the German Raider Komet 1940-1941: Mystery Ships – Demystified! vii, 55, [5]p., bibliog., illus. Garden Island, NSW: Naval Historical Society of Australia, 1997. ISBN: 0958669023.
The rather slight memoir of one of Komet's crew, who served in the galley during this successful cruise. |
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| 3832 | ORTZEN, Len. Stories of Famous Sea Raiders. [vi], 160p., bibliog. London: Barker, 1973. ISBN: 0213164450.
Stories from 1700 to 1941, but mainly from the two world wars. From WWII there are good routine accounts of the cruises of the German raiders Atlantis, Pinguin, Kormoran,and Graf Spee. |
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| 3833 | REMINICK, Gerald. Action in the South Atlantic: The Sinking of the German Raider Stier by the Liberty Ship Stephen Hopkins. xiv, 304p., bibliog., illus. Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon, 2006. ISBN: 1889901385.
Records a little known but very gallant action. |
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| 3834 | ROGGE, Bernhard, & FRANK, Wolfgang. Under Ten Flags: The Story of the German Commerce Raider Atlantis. vi, 185p., illus. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; New York: Ballantine, 1956.
Rogge captained Atlantis during her short but successful career. US title: The German Raider Atlantis. |
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| 3835 | SANDBACH, Betsy, & EDGE, Geraldine. Prison Life on a Pacific Raider: The Adventures of Betsy Sandbach and Geraldine Edge, Nurse Escorts to the First Five Hundred Children Evacuated to Australia. 223p., illus. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941. The nurses sailed out on Batory but were captured on the way home when the Rangitane was sunk by the raiders Komet and Orion. Compare the account of Barley. |
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| 3836 | SCHMALENBACH, Paul. German Raiders: A History of Auxiliary Cruisers of the German Navy 1895–1945. 144p., bibliog., illus., index. Cambridge: PSL; Annapolis: NIP, 1979. ISBN: 0850593514.
A fully illustrated account of the ships, how they were operated, their equipment, and fate. |
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| 3837 | SLAVICK, Joseph P. The Cruise of the German Raider Atlantis. xv, 260p., bibliog.., illus., index. Annapolis: NIP, 2003. ISBN: 1557505373.
An excellent, thorough and perhaps definitive account. |
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| 3838 | TAYLOR, James. Prisoner of the Kormoran: W. A. Jones's Amazing Experiences on the German Raider Kormoran and as a Prisoner of War in Germany. 272p., frontis. London: Harrap, 1945.
Jones was a cook on the Mareeba, taken in the Bay of Bengal. |
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| 3839 | WATERS, S. D. German Raiders in the Pacific (New Zealand in the Second World War. Official History). 32p., illus. Wellington: Department of Internal Affairs, 1949.
A heavily illustrated pamphlet. Reprinted by Merriam Press in 2000 and again in 2008. |
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| 3840 | WEYHER, Kurt, & EHRLICH, H. J. The Black Raider. 200p., illus. London: Elek, 1955.
The remarkable story of the cruise of the raider Orion over 17 months in 1940–41. |
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| 3841 | WOODWARD, David. The Secret Raiders: The Story of the Operations of the German Armed Merchant Raiders in the Second World War. 232, [xviii]p., illus. London: Kimber; New York: Norton, 1955.
A comprehensive review. |
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| 3842 | The U 534 Story. 20p., illus. [Birkenhead: Warship Preservation Trust, c.1997].
A glossy souvenir guide to a U-boat raised off the Danish coast and preserved in the Mersey. |
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