Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 128 p. Now in its final resting place at the bottom of the Potomac River in Maryland, the U-Boat U-1105 is unique among German World War II submarines. Technologically innovative, it was the only U-Boat to conduct a wartime patrol while equipped with the snorkel, GHG Balkon passive sonar and a rubberized coating known as Alberich designed to...
Praeger, 2009. — 257 p. Admiral Topp's memoirs reflect the faith, hopes, errors, and transformations in a man's life, indeed those of a whole generation whose understanding of history and ideology were held captive by the myth of power. The terrible annihilation in World War II and, even more so, the unimaginable destructive potential of nuclear weapons, have resulted in a...
Greenhill Books, 2007. — 350 p. Next to nothing has been written about the U-boat war in the Indian Ocean. This is the story of a forgotten campaign. The battle began in August 1943, when a German submarine arrived in the Malaysian harbour of Georgetown. In total, nearly fourty U-boats were assigned to penetrate the Indian Ocean, serving alongside troops of the occupying...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1985. — 400 p. The U-boats constituted a serious threat to North American security and a major challenge to coastal and convoy defence. Hadley reveals the military and political impact on Canada of in-shore submarine warfare and vibrantly documents the successful German strategy of deploying daring long-range solo sorties to pin down the enemy...
Pen and Sword, 2018. — 359 p. On the night of 13 October 1939, the Type VIIB U-boat U-47, on its second war patrol, penetrated the main Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow and sank the British battleship HMS Royal Oak. This legendary attack is remembered as one of the most audacious raids in the history of submarine warfare. In this remarkably detailed account, the author charts the...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2004. — 335 с. В книге рассказывается о боевых операциях немецких подводных лодок, главным образом в Атлантике. Основанное на документах и свидетельствах очевидцев повествование охватывает период с 1939-го по 1945 год, в том числе предысторию развития подводного оружия. Вы узнаете о свирепых атаках немецких "морских волков", наиболее трагической из которых...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2011. — 432 с. Эта невыносимо жестокая книга, которая заслуженно считается мировым бестселлером, посвящена самому антигуманному оружию в военно-морской истории — немецкой субмарине. В захватывающем повествовании отражена вся правда о войне, вся грязь и мерзость ужасающей бойни, где перемешаны представления о добре и зле. Автор точно воссоздает технические...
Open Road Media, 2014. — 200 p. The inside story of life aboard the deadly Nazi U-Boat that sank forty-nine ships. The history of one of World War II’s most successful submarines, U-124, is chronicled in Grey Wolf, Grey Sea, from its few defeats to a legion of victories. Kapitan-leutnant Jochen Mohr commanded his German submarine and navigated it through the treacherous waters...
Pen and Sword Books, 2017. — 208 p. On the outbreak of war in 1939 Admiral Donitz's U-boat flotillas consisted of some thirty U-boats fully operational, with only six to eight at sea at any one time. Their activities were restricted mainly to the North Sea and British coastal waters. When France fell in the summer of 1940, the ports in the Bay of Biscay gave direct access to...
Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 432 p. The accepted historical narrative of the Second World War predominantly assigns U-boats to the so-called 'Battle of the Atlantic', almost as if the struggle over convoys between the new world and the old can be viewed in isolation from simultaneous events on land and in the air. This has become an almost accepted error. The U-boats war did not...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2017. — 288 p. This compelling book explores Germany's campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare in World War I, which marked the onset of total war at sea. Noted historian Lawrence Sondhaus shows how the undersea campaign, intended as an antidote to Britain's more conventional blockade of German ports, ultimately brought the United States...
Savas Publishing, 2014. — 255 р. U-505 ist das einzige deutsche U-Boot, das im 2. Weltkrieg von amerikanischen Schiffen aufgebracht wurde. Nachdem es im Frühjahr 1944 drei Monate lang erfolglos vor Westafrika operiert hatte, trat es den Rückmarsch zum Stützpunkt Lorient an und wurde dabei am 4. Juni 1944 von einem amerikanischen U-Jagdverband geortet und mit Wasserbomben...
Pen and Sword, 2011. — 228 p. — ISBN 978-1848326132. Reinhard ‘Teddy’ Suhren fired more successful torpedo shots than any other man during the war, many before he even became a U-boat commander. He was also the U-boat service’s most irreverent and rebellious commander; his lack of a military bearing was a constant source of friction with higher authority. Valued for his good...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2016. — 208 р. Admiral Daniel V. Gallery boarded and captured a German U-Boat at sea in June, 1944—the first American officer to so capture an enemy warship since 1815! U-505 is Admiral Gallery's own story of his extraordinary feat—and also a gripping narrative of the fierce Allied war against the German U-Boat fleet. A humdinger of a sea story...a...
Frontline Books, 2018. — 312 p. Launched during the last days of the Third Reich in an attempt to restart the Battle of the Atlantic, the majority of the revolutionary Electro-U-boats never saw action. Instead, they became the forebears of the Cold War's much dreaded hunter-killer submarines. Slotted in among the highly technical information in the German U-boat Museum were...
Seaforth Publishing, 2022. — 224 p. As World War II recedes further into the past, still each year hundreds of new books are published about some aspect of this global conflict. Many offer new insights from recently declassified documents. Other’s look to re-interpret what was thought to be well understood events. This book is no exception. The history of U-402, a Type VIIC...
Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. — 214 p. Dieser Bildband beschreibt die Entwicklungsgeschichte der deutschen U-Bootwaffe von den Anfängen bis zum Ende des ersten Weltkriegs. Mit umfangreichem Bildmaterial wird jede U-Bootklasse vorgestellt und anhand von Schicksalen einzelner Boote dargestellt. Selbstverständlich dürfen auch Informationen zur...
Bellona, 2022. — 230 p. U-505 to jeden z tych niemieckich okrętów podwodnych II wojny światowej, którego losy nadają się na scenariusz filmu. Wprawdzie zatopił osiem alianckich statków i mimo ciężkich uszkodzeń potrafił powrócić z rejonu Karaibów do bazy w okupowanej Francji, ale też był naznaczony swoistym fatum. Jego dowódca popełnił samobójstwo na pokładzie. Na dodatek stał...
London: Amber Books, 2006. — 200 p. Although Germany had lost her fleet at the end of Word War I, by 1939 she had built up a formidable force of modern vessels. It was the Kriegsmarine’s submarines – the U-boats – that were to prove the most effective and deadly arm of the German navy in World War II. Built to harass Allied shipping, the U-boat ‘wolfpacks’ almost succeeding in...
McFarland and Company, 2017. — 228 p. In the final year of World War I, Germany made its first attempt to wage submarine warfare off faraway shores. Large, long-range U-boats (short for unterseeboot or "undersea boat") attacked Allied shipping off the coasts of the U.S., Canada and West Africa in a desperate campaign to sidestep and scatter the lethal U-boat defenses in...
Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 432 p. The accepted historical narrative of the Second World War predominantly assigns U-boats to the so-called 'Battle of the Atlantic', almost as if the struggle over convoys between the new world and the old can be viewed in isolation from simultaneous events on land and in the air. This has become an almost accepted error. The U-boats war did not...
Greenhill Books, 2006. — 288 p. Next to nothing has been written about the U-boat war in the Indian Ocean. This is the story of a forgotten campaign. The battle began in August 1943, when a German submarine arrived in the Malaysian harbour of Georgetown. In total, nearly fourty U-boats were assigned to penetrate the Indian Ocean, serving alongside troops of the occupying...
Greenhill Books, 2018. — 288 p. Otto Kretschmer was only in combat from September 1939 until March 1941 but was Germany's highest-scoring U-boat commander sinking 47 ships totaling 274,333 tons. This definitive work details his personal story and the political backdrop from his earliest days. Aged 17 he spent 8 months studying literature at Exeter University where he learned to...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2013. — 128 p. The steel coffins were the name given to the U-boats of the Kriegsmarine by their own crews. Their fatalistic view of the war was certainly justified; it is estimated that seventy-five per cent of the 39,000 men who sailed in the U-boat fleet paid the ultimate price as the tide of war turned inexorably against Hitler’s Germany. This is the...
Naval Institute Press, 2002. — 304 p. Until now, finding reliable information on U-boats lost during World War I required fluency in German and a great deal of time. Not only was little information available in English but also German sources were difficult to track down and provided the barest of facts. Long in the making, this new reference fills the needs both of researchers...
Pen and Sword, 2018. — 359 p. On the night of 13 October 1939, the Type VIIB U-boat U-47, on its second war patrol, penetrated the main Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow and sank the British battleship HMS Royal Oak. This legendary attack is remembered as one of the most audacious raids in the history of submarine warfare. In this remarkably detailed account, the author charts the...
World Publishing Company, 1959. — 528 p. Commander of the U-boat fleet, Supreme Naval Commander, and finally Hitler's successor in the last days of the Third Reich, Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz (18911980) has been condemned as a Nazi and praised as one of the most brilliant and honorable military leaders of the war. His "wolfpack" tactics resulted in a handful of U-boats sinking...
Charles River Editors Press, 2018. — 95 p. World War I witnessed the First Battle of the Atlantic, when the Kaiserreich unleashed its U-boats against England. During the war, the German submarines sent much of the British merchant marine to the bottom. Indeed, German reliance on U-boats in both World War I and World War II stemmed largely from their nation's geography. The...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 360 p. In depth study of the use of U-Boats in the First World War and the diplomatic, economic, and military consequences. A deeply researched and engaging account of the use of U-Boats in the First World War. The focus touches on both diplomatic and economic aspects as well as the tactical and strategic use of the U-boats. The book also...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 360 p. In June 1944, U.S. Navy Task Group 22.3, a "hunter-killer" force commanded by Daniel Gallery to track down German submarines, boarded and captured U-505 off the coast of Africa. It was the first time that an enemy ship of war had been captured on the high seas by U.S. Navy sailors since 1815, when the USS Peacock seized HMS Nautilus as part...
The History Press, 2008. — 128 p. By the time of the Normandy invasion in June 1944, the U-boats were a beaten force, hunted and harried wherever they appeared by Allied warships and aircraft. The U-boats proved to be little more than pin pricks against the landings, and advancing Anglo-American armies had driven them out of their French west Atlantic bases all the way back to...
Naval Institute Press, 1997. — 288 p. The layout is a list of German U-Boats losses in date order with each of the years 1914 - 1918 and 1939 - 1945 as separate chapters. The book then concludes with; Glossary, Bibliography, Index of U Boats, Index of Commanders and General Index. The way you use the book is then entirely up to you. If, for example, you know nothing at all, you...
Routledge, 2015. — 346 p. Over the last 30 years, hydrographical marine surveys in the English Channel helped uncover the potential wreck sites of German submarines, or U-boats, sunk during the conflicts of World War I and World War II. Through a series of systemic dives, nautical archaeologist and historian Innes McCartney surveyed and recorded these wrecks, discovering that...
Weidenfeld Military, 1988. — 64 p. During World War II, the Kriegsmarine produced many different types of U-boats as technology evolved. Most notable is the Type VII, known as the "workhorse" of the fleet, which was by far the most-produced type, and the Type IX boats, an enlarged VII designed for long-range patrols, some traveling as far as Japan and the east coast of the...
Mcgill Queens University Press, 1995. — 295 p. «Iron coffins», «grey wolves» and «steel sharks» - cast in images such as these, submarines are icons of Germany's maritime tradition. In books and films, submarines have been used to promote political goals and to justify and explain an intriguing and sometimes ambiguous past. This work explores the cult and culture surrounding...
Seaforth Publishing, 2020. — 400 p. During the last year of World War II the once surface-bound diesel-electric U-boat ushered in the age of total undersea war' with the introduction of an air mast, or 'snorkel' as it became known among the men who served in Denitz's submarine fleet. U-boats no longer needed to surface to charge batteries or refresh air; they rarely...
Frontline Books, 2020. — 232 p. The success of German submarines during the First World War in almost cutting off Britain’s vital imports had not been forgotten by Adolf Hitler and when, in March 1935, he repudiated the Treaty of Versailles, Britain, magnanimously, signed up to an Anglo-German Naval Agreement. This allowed the Germans to build their submarine strength up to one...
Naval Institute Press, 2005. — 200 p. On the outbreak of war in 1939 Admiral Donitz initiated an ambitious building programme of Type IX U-Cruisers, larger and with even greater range than the Type VIIs. The Type IXs at first operated with considerable success against shipping off the East Coast of America and in the Caribbean but this was just a taste of what they were capable...
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1999. — 224 p. — ISBN10: 1-85406-200-6; ISBN13: 978-1-85406-200-7. This is the powerful story of the U-boat wars, recreated from the experiences of German survivors. The drama and excitement of it all is more than matched by the constant, numbing danger, unimaginable to anyone who has not lain silent and freezing, facing death beneath the waves in...
Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 312 p. German U-boats were the scourge of Allied merchant and military shipping in the Atlantic during World War II, threatening to isolate and then starve the UK out of the War. As Germany's war against the Allied convoys intensified in late 1943, German Admiral Karl Dönitz called upon the Luftwaffe to provide a long-range spotting and shadowing unit...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2005. — 209 p. This fascinating book examines the exchange of information and goods by underwater means between Germany and Japan during the second half of WW2. Known as 'Yanagi' this trade was a high priority to both Axis partners. As the Allies' grip on control of the oceans and air tightened, it became necessary to rely on submarines. This posed an...
Parsons Publishing Company, 2014. — 75 p. The following pages form an abridged translation of a book published in 1916 by Freiherrn von Forstner, commander of the first German U-boat during World War One. It was written with the somewhat careless haste of a man who took advantage of disconnected moments of leisure, and these moments were evidently subject to abrupt and...
Savas Beatie, 2008. — 280 p. Hans Goebeler is known as the man who “pulled the plug” on U-505 in 1944 to keep his beloved U-boat out of Allied hands. Steel Boat, Iron Hearts is his no-holds-barred account of service aboard a combat U-boat. It is the only full-length memoir of its kind, and Goebeler was aboard for every one of U-505’s war patrols. Using his own experiences, log...
Orion, 2011. — 908 p. The first volume of Clay Blair's magisterial, highly praised narrative history of the German submarine war against Allied shipping in World War II, The Hunters, 1939-1942, described the Battle of the Atlantic waged first against the British Empire and then against the Americas. This second and concluding volume, The Hunted, 1942-1945, covers the period...
Pen and Sword, 1999. — 224 p. Weuner Furbringer (Fips) became one of the most successful U-Boat commanders in WW1 through a blend of skill, daring and, by his own typically modest admission, sheer luck. This vivid memoir, never before published in English, makes compelling reading.This is an inspiring and chivalrous story; it is ironic then that, when finally sunk by the Royal...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2006. — 256 p. Oskar Heinz Kusch, joined the German Navy in 1937. He worked his way successfully through naval college and eventually volunteered for duty in U boats. During this period the underwater service was causing havoc to Allied shipping in the Atlantic and was highly regarded as an elite force. He had an exemplary service record, and eventually...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 128 p. Now in its final resting place at the bottom of the Potomac River in Maryland, the U-Boat U-1105 is unique among German World War II submarines. Technologically innovative, it was the only U-Boat to conduct a wartime patrol while equipped with the snorkel, GHG Balkon passive sonar and a rubberized coating known as Alberich designed to...
Frontline Books, 2013. — 208 p. The memoirs of Admiral Karl Dönitz, Ten Years and Twenty Days, are a fascinating first-hand account of the Battle of the Atlantic as seen from the headquarters of the U-boat fleet. Now, for the first time noted naval historian Jak P. Mallmann Showell has combined Dönitz’s memoirs in a parallel text with the British Admiralty’s secret Monthly...
Birlinn, 2012. — 258 p. Sinking the battleship HMS Royal Oak in the Royal Navy's home anchorage (in 1939), with the loss of more than 800 of her crew, was Germany's first shattering blow against Britain in the 1939-1945 war. Within six weeks the long-standing German dream of breaching the defences of Scapa Flow had been achieved. Germany claimed the sinking for the submarine...
Frontline Books, 2014. — 305 p. No other publication on this subject comes even close to including the amount of detail provided in this book. An introduction both summarizes previous works on the subject and describes the difficulties of obtaining and verifying information from either the Germans or the Allies on U-boat losses. The main part of the book lists by hull number...