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27 produkter
Running the Gauntlet
Cargo Liners Under Fire 1939 1945
Inbunden, 2022
225 kr
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The British Merchant Navy dominated the world trade routes in the years leading up to the Second World War. The star players of the fleet were the cargo liners, faster and larger than the tramps and offering limited passenger accommodation. On the outbreak of war these cargo liners became crucial …
Survivors of Enemy Action
Experiences of Merchant Seamen, 1939 1945
Inbunden, 2023
225 kr
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The war years 1939 - 1945 were the most perilous in the long history of the British Merchant Navy. The figures speak for themselves. With 2,535 ships sunk and 36,749 merchant seamen lost, the proportional casualty rate was higher than any branch of the Armed Forces except for Bomber Command.The …
Survivors of Enemy Action
Experiences of Merchant Seamen, 1939–1945
E-bok, 2023
15 kr
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The war years 1939 – 1945 were the most perilous in the long history of the British Merchant Navy. The figures speak for themselves. With 2,535 ships sunk and 36,749 merchant seamen lost, the proportional casualty rate was higher than any branch of the Armed Forces except for Bomber Command. The …
Survivors of Enemy Action
Experiences of Merchant Seamen, 1939–1945
E-bok, 2023
15 kr
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The war years 1939 – 1945 were the most perilous in the long history of the British Merchant Navy. The figures speak for themselves. With 2,535 ships sunk and 36,749 merchant seamen lost, the proportional casualty rate was higher than any branch of the Armed Forces except for Bomber Command. The …
Running the Gauntlet
Cargo Liners Under Fire 1939–1945
E-bok, 2022
132 kr
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The British Merchant Navy dominated the world trade routes in the years leading up to the Second World War. The star players of the fleet were the cargo liners, faster and larger than the tramps and offering limited passenger accommodation. On the outbreak of war these cargo liners became crucial …
Running the Gauntlet
Cargo Liners Under Fire 1939–1945
E-bok, 2022
132 kr
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The British Merchant Navy dominated the world trade routes in the years leading up to the Second World War. The star players of the fleet were the cargo liners, faster and larger than the tramps and offering limited passenger accommodation. On the outbreak of war these cargo liners became crucial …
Japan’s Blitzkrieg
The Allied Collapse in the East, 1941–42
E-bok, 2021
126 kr
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Early on the morning of 7 December 1941, 360 Japanese carrier-borne aircraft made a surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, and laid waste to the American Far East Fleet. They sank four battleships, crippled three cruisers and three destroyers, and seriously damaged two other …
Convoy Will Scatter
The Full Story of Jervis Bay and Convoy HX84
E-bok, 2021
126 kr
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On 5 November, 1940 the eastbound convoy HX 84 of thirty-seven merchant ships, escorted by the armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay, was attacked in mid-Atlantic by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer. The Jervis Bay, commanded by Captain Edward Fegen, charged at the enemy. Hopelessly …
Convoy Will Scatter
The Full Story of Jervis Bay and Convoy HX84
E-bok, 2013
30 kr
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A naval historian reveals the full story of the HMS Jervis Bay and the merchant ships that valiantly saved lives during the WWII Battle of the Atlantic.On November 5th, 1940, the thirty-eight merchant ships of Convoy HX84 were making their way across the North Atlantic, escorted by the armed …
Donitz and the Wolf Packs
E-bok, 2021
126 kr
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On 17 September 1942 Admiral Karl Donitz, C-in-C U-boats, issued the following directive: To all Commanders - 'All attempts to rescue members of ships sunk, therefore also fishing out swimmers and putting them into lifeboats, righting capsized lifeboats, handing out provisions and water, have to …
The Decoys
A Tale of Three Atlantic Convoys, 1942
E-bok, 2021
126 kr
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In November 1942, Britain and America launched Operation TORCH, the ambitious invasion of French North Africa. To convey 70,000 troops and their equipment required 600 merchant ships crossing the U-boat infested North Atlantic. The need for their protection meant withdrawing escorts from the …
Churchill's Thin Grey Line: British Merchant Ships at War 1939-1945
Inbunden, 2018
225 kr
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The first British casualties of the Second World War were not members of either the Royal Navy, the Army or the Royal Air Force but British merchant seamen on the liner Athenia, torpedoed by U-30 on 3 September 1939. For the duration of the War Britain's merchant fleet performed a vital role, …
Death in the Doldrums
U-Cruiser Actions off West Africa
E-bok, 2021
126 kr
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With their very long range, the giant Type IX U-Cruisers gave Admiral Dönitz's U-boat fleet global reach. Initially these boats operated with considerable success off the East coast of America and in the Caribbean but their main impact was in the Gulf of Guinea 1942-43 which, due to the closure of …
War of the U-Boats
British Merchantmen Under Fire
E-bok, 2021
126 kr
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From the earliest days of the Second World War, Hitler’s U-Boats were unleashed with the mission of sinking as much Allied merchant tonnage as possible. From the sinking of the Glasgow-based ship Olivegrove by U-23, to the end of hostilities six years later officers and seamen of the Merchant …
Quiet Heroes
British Merchant Seamen at War, 1939–1945
E-bok, 2021
126 kr
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The men of Britain's Merchant Navy, although unarmed civilians going about their lawful business were the first to be involved with the enemy in the Second World War. Less than nine hours after the declaration of war on 3 September 1939, the Donaldson liner Athenia was sunk without warning by a …
Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders
Enforcing Abolition at Sea, 1808-1898
E-bok, 2008
15 kr
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The acclaimed naval historian sheds significant light on the Royal Navy's role in fighting the African slave trade through years of bitter battle at sea. On March 16th, 1807, the British Parliament passed The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. The following year, the Royal Navy's West African …
Beware Raiders!
German Surface Raiders in the Second World War
E-bok, 2021
126 kr
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This is the fascinating story of two German surface raiders and the havoc they caused amongst Allied shipping in World War II. One was the 8-inch gun cruiser Admiral Hipper, fast, powerful and Navy-manned: the other a converted merchant man, Hansa Line's Kandelfels armed with a few old 5.9s manned …
The Road to Russia
Arctic Convoys, 1942
E-bok, 2021
126 kr
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Bernard Edwards, the formidable naval historian, has researched the fate of Convoys PQ13 and PQ17 bound from Iceland to Northern Russia as well as the westbound Convoy QP13. Attacked relentlessly by aircraft and U-boats, the former lost a total of thirty ships while QP13 ran into a British …
Twilight of the U-Boats
E-bok, 2021
79 kr
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In essence, this is the story of U-223,commanded by Karl-Jurgen Wïoehter from the time of her commissioning in Kiel in January 1943 through a murderous career to her eventual but dramatic demise in the Mediterranean in March 1944. At the same time, the book covers the declining fortunes of the …
War Under the Red Ensign
E-bok, 2021
126 kr
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The Kaiser’s determination to starve Britain into surrender and the development of his Navy and the U-boats in particular meant that Britain’s merchant navy was in the front line throughout the Great War. This book charts the progress of the war at sea which began with the sinking of the oil tanker …
Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders
Enforcing Abolition at Sea, 1808–1898
E-bok, 2021
126 kr
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On March 16, 1807, the British Parliament passed The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. In the following year the Royal Navy’s African Squadron was formed, its mission to stop and search ships at sea suspected of carrying slaves from Africa to the Americas and the Middle East.
The Wolf Packs Gather
Mayhem in the Western Approaches 1940
E-bok, 2021
126 kr
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The capture by the German surface raider Atlantis of the British steamer City of Baghdad’s secret code books in July 1940 enabled the Nazis to de-cypher Admiralty convoy plans with deadly effect. This book describes the resulting appalling Allied losses suffered by four convoys during the Autumn of …
Attack & Sink
The Battle of the Atlantic Summer 1941, Second Edition
Häftad, 2013
206 kr
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