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| 3903 | PATERSON, Lawrence. First U-Boat Flotilla. xix, 300p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Cooper, 2002. ISBN: 085052816X.
Formed in 1935, the First Flotilla fought until 1944 when its survivors were captured at the fall of Brest. A full account based on survivor's accounts as well as personal reminiscences. Commanders included such names as Kretschmer and Topp. |
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| 3904 | PATERSON, Lawrence. Hitler's Grey Wolves: U-Boats in the Indian Ocean. 287p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Greenhill; Mechaniscsburg, PA.: Stackpole, 2004. ISBN: 1853676152.
A competent account of a fascinating minor theatre of the war where the Axis partners uniquely worked together. |
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| 3905 | PATERSON, Lawrence. Second U-Boat Flotilla. xiv, 274p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Cooper, 2003. ISBN: 0850529174.
Formed in 1936, the Second Flotilla fought throughout the war with famous commanders and in renowned actions. A full account based on survivor's accounts as well as personal reminiscences. |
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| 3906 | PATERSON, Lawrence. U-Boat Combat Missions. The Pursuers & the Pursued: First-Hand Accounts of U-Boat Life and Operations. 156p., bibliog., illus. London: Chatham, 2007. ISBN: 1861763204.
The author has pieced together the technical details of the roles of individual crew members with extensive first-hand reports. These experiences - from cooks to engineers and from young recruits to battle-hardened commanders - build up into a picture of life undersea. U-boat men also had a reputation for making the most of time spent ashore, between missions, and a vivid portrayal of life back at the home bases is also drawn. |
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| 3907 | PATERSON, Lawrence. U-Boat War Patrol: The Hidden Photographic Diary of U-564. 206p., London: Greenhill; Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole, 2004. ISBN: 9781853675751.
This illustrated record is unique in that it charts a complete history of a single patrol and provides a new insight into life aboard through the successes and trials of U-564. Photographed during the summer of 1942 by an onboard war correspondent they show a U-Boat in action in the Atlantic and Caribbean, |
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| 3908 | PRAG, Christian. No Ordinary War: The Eventful Career of U-604. 192p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Seaforth, 2009. ISBN: 978 1848320222.
Builds up an authentic picture of U-boat life by describing her six wartime patrols up to her sinking in 1943 through the use of logbooks, technical data and personal reminiscences. |
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| 3909 | PRESTON, Antony. U-Boats. 192p., illus., index. London: Arms & Armour, 1978. ISBN: 0853681929.
A well-illustrated history of German submarine operations, with half devoted to WWII. |
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| 3910 | ROBERTSON, Terence. The Golden Horseshoe. 210p., illus., index. London: Evans, 1955; New York: Dutton,1956. Describes Germany’s most successful U-boat Commander, Otto Kretschmer, and his boat U 99, which bore a golden horseshoe as its crest. His victims included three Armed Merchant Cruisers before he was sunk and captured by Captain Walker in 1941. Reissued in 1980 with the title Night Raider of the Atlantic, which was also the title of the original American edition. Republished in 2000 in paperback by Tempus in the Fortunes of War Series, ISBN: 0752420194. |
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| 3911 | RÖHWER, Jurgen. Axis Submarine Successes, 1939–1945. xxii, 386p., illus., index. Cambridge: PSL; Annapolis: NIP, 1983. ISBN: 0850596955.
An updated translation of a 1968 German work. Detailed tables, fully indexed, of all reported attacks. An encyclopaedic work. |
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| 3912 | RÖHWER, Jurgen. Kriegsmarine U 107 (Profile Warship, 8). 169–192pp., illus. Windsor: Profile Publications, 1971.
A typical boat of the most successful IXB Class. Her 13 patrols from 1941 to 1944 are fully described. |
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| 3913 | ROSSLER, Eberhard. The U-Boat: The Evolution and Technical History of German Submarines. 384p., illus. London: Arms & Armour; Annapolis: NIP, 1981. ISBN: 0853681155.
A fully illustrated and authoritative technical work which includes much operational detail. |
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| 3914 | SAVAS, Theodore P. Hunt and Kill: U-505 and the U-Boat War in the Atlantic. xviii, 290p., bibliog., illus, index. Staplehurst: Spellmount; New York: Savas Beatie, 2004. ISBN: 1862272638
U-505 was captured in the Atlantic in 1944 and now sits in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Half a dozen well known authors combine to tell her and her crews tale and put it in context. |
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| 3915 | SAVAS, Theodore P. Silent Hunters: German U-Boat Commanders of World War II. [x], 215p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Greenhill; Campbell, Calif.: Savas, 1997. ISBN: 1844150263.
Six essays by well-known authors consider the careers of Endrass, Merten, Kapitsky, Guggenberger, Oehrn, and Eck. |
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| 3916 | SCALIA, Joseph Mark. Germany's Last Mission to Japan: The Failed Voyage of U 234. xxiv, 253p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis: NIP, 2000. ISBN: 1557508119
A fascinating byway. Describes not only the voyage - which ended in her surrender at the end of the war in Europe - but the cargo, technology, and important passengers she carried. |
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| 3917 | SCHAEFFER, Heinz. U-Boat 977. 207p., illus. London: Kimber, 1952; New York: Norton, 1953. An atmospheric biography by the captain credited popularly with carrying Hitler to South America in 1945. Reprinted in 2003 by Wrens Park with a foreword by Nicholas Monsarrat and the new subtitle The True Story of the U-Boat that Escaped to Argentina, ISBN: 0905778871, then again reprinted by Greenhill in 2017, ISBN: 9781784382490, with an introduction by Marcus Faulkner. |
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| 3918 | SCHMEELKE, Karl Heinz, & SCHMEELKE, Michael. German U-Boat Bunkers Yesterday and Today. 48p., illus. Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer, 1999. ISBN: 076430786X.
Heavily illustrated with contemporary pictures and plans of the major Atlantic bases. |
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| 3919 | SELLARS, Walter. Hard Aground. 93p. St. John's, Nfld.: Breakwater, 1992. ISBN: 1550810146.
A modern tale, solving the mystery of a U-boat supposedly lost in 1944 supplying a weather station in Labrador. See Showell's U-Boats in Camera for the unvarnished tale. |
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| 3920 | SHARPE, Peter. U-Boat Fact File 1935–1945. 224p., bibliog., illus. Earl Shilton: Midland Publishing, 1998. ISBN: 1857800729.
A reference work giving details of every U-boat including lists of patrols and attacks. Appendices round out the picture. |
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| 3921 | SHOWELL, Jak P. Mallman. Hitler's U-Boat Bases. xviii, 198p., bibliog., illus., index. Stroud: Sutton; Annapolis, NIP, 2002. ISBN: 1557503966.
A detailed examination of the bunkers from Norway to Bordeaux. |
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| 3922 | SHOWELL, Jak P. Mallman. U-Boat Commanders and Crews 1935–45. 144p., bibliog., illus. Ramsbury: Crowood, 1998. ISBN: 1861261926.
Virtually a reference book. This profusely illustrated book considers the crews, commanders, training, and operational life onboard. |
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