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Book Synopsis German Raiders in the Pacific by : Ray Merriam
Download or read book German Raiders in the Pacific written by Ray Merriam and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-03-10 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merriam Press Military Monograph 62. Fourth Edition (March 2012). Next to the U-boats, the surface raiders of the Kriegsmarine were among the most effective naval vessels the Germans loosed upon the oceans during World War II. Few, however, know that some of these "auxiliary cruisers" also served in the Pacific Ocean, even laying mines outside of New Zealand harbors. Contents: * Introduction * The Sinking of the Turakina * The Komet Enters the Pacific * Holmwood and Rangitane Sunk * Operations of the Pinguin * Harbor Entrances Mined * Raiders' Long Cruises End * Appendix: German Raiders of the South Pacific, 19 June 1940 * 21 photos * 5 illustrations * 6 maps.
Book Synopsis German Raiders in the Pacific by : S. D. Waters
Download or read book German Raiders in the Pacific written by S. D. Waters and published by . This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis German Raiders in the Pacific by : Sydney David Waters
Download or read book German Raiders in the Pacific written by Sydney David Waters and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis German Raiders in the Pacific by : S. D. Waters
Download or read book German Raiders in the Pacific written by S. D. Waters and published by Merriam Press. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book False Flags written by Stephen Robinson and published by Exisle Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Address by the Commander of the German Raiders in the Pacific by :
Download or read book Address by the Commander of the German Raiders in the Pacific written by and published by . This book was released on 1940* with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book False Flags written by Stephen Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: False Flags tells the epic story of German raider voyages during the early years of World War II. In 1940 the raiders Orion, Komet, Pinguin and Kormoran left Germany and waged a 'pirate war' across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans as well as the Arctic and Antarctic - part of Germany's strategy to attack the British Empire's maritime trade.
Book Synopsis German Commerce Raiders 1914–18 by : Ryan K. Noppen
Download or read book German Commerce Raiders 1914–18 written by Ryan K. Noppen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Germany's commerce raiders of World War I, the surface ships that were supposed to starve the British Isles of the vast cargoes of vital resources being shipped from the furthest reaches of the Empire. To that end pre-war German naval strategists allocated a number of cruisers and armed, fast ocean liners, as well as a complex and globe-spanning supply network to support them – known as the Etappe network. This book, drawing on technical illustrations and the author's exhaustive research, explains the often overlooked role that the commerce raiders played in World War I. Whilst exploring the design and development of the ships, it also describes their operational history, how they tied up a disproportionate amount of the British fleet on lengthy pursuits, and how certain raiders such as the SMS Emden were able to wreak havoc across the oceans.
Book Synopsis German Commerce Raider vs British Cruiser by : Robert Forczyk
Download or read book German Commerce Raider vs British Cruiser written by Robert Forczyk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, the Kriegsmarine armed a number of merchant vessels with concealed guns and torpedo tubes for surprise attacks against Allied shipping. To counter this deadly threat, the Royal Navy employed cruisers and their intelligence-gathering apparatus to find and destroy the disguised German commerce raiders. This Duel title covers the deadly game of cat and mouse, fought by these surface vessels during World War II.
Book Synopsis German Raiders of the South Seas by : Robin Bromby
Download or read book German Raiders of the South Seas written by Robin Bromby and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts the naval threat to Australia and New Zealand in 1914-1917.
Download or read book The Wolf written by Peter Hohnen and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of an epic voyage of destruction in World War One. July 1917: the First World War is about to enter its fourth horrendous year and ships are mysteriously disappearing off Australia and New Zealand, as a young Australian woman named Mary Cameron sails with her husband and daughter across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Sydney. Less than a thousand miles from Sydney, a black-hulled freighter appears out of the vast blue emptiness, and Mary and her daughter rush to the deck to greet her. Suddenly, two hinged iron sections of the freighter's bulwarks drop down to reveal she is bristling with guns. She is in fact the German warship the Wolf, and the Cameron family are about to find themselves captive on one of the century's most extraordinary wartime sea voyages. Sent by Germany on a suicide mission to the far side of the world, the Wolf was a formidable and ingenious commerce-raider. Her task was to inflict maximum destruction on Allied shipping using all the latest technology of warfare - torpedoes, mines, cannons, smokescreens, wireless receivers, even a seaplane. It was an assignment so secret that she could never pull in to port or transmit any radio signal. In one continual 64,000-mile voyage, the ship caused havoc across three oceans, launched Germany's first direct attacks on Australia and New Zealand and captured over 400 men, women and children. Surviving on fuel and food plundered from other ships, the Wolf became a world in miniature as her 350-strong crew and their prisoners crowded together in an improbable survival story. Drawn from eyewitness accounts, declassified government files and unpublished diaries and correspondence discovered during five years of research, this is the story of the Wolf's voyage, one of the most remarkable but little-known episodes of the First World War. An extraordinary adventure story, The Wolf is also a portrait of a world undergoing profound transformation.
Download or read book Lapham's Raiders written by Robert Lapham and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 8, 1941, the day after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese invaded the Philippine Islands, catching American forces unprepared and forcing their eventual surrender. Among the American soldiers who managed to avoid capture was twenty-five-year-old Lieutenant Robert Lapham, who was to play a major role in the resistance to the brutal Japanese occupation. After emerging from the jungles of Bataan and in the face of daunting odds, Lapham built from scratch and commanded a devastating guerrilla force behind enemy lines. His Luzon Guerrilla Armed Forces (LGAF) evolved into an army of thirteen thousand men that eventually controlled the entire northern half of Luzon's great Central Plain, an area of several thousand square miles. This personal account of the Luzon guerrilla operations is woven into the larger context of the war. Lapham and Norling shed light on the clandestine activities of the LGAF and other guerrilla operations, assess the damages of war to the Filipino people, and discuss the United States' postwar treatment of the newly independent Philippine nation. They also offer a fuller understanding of Japan's wartime failures in the Philippines, the Pacific, and elsewhere in Asia, and of America's postwar failure to fully realize opportunities there.
Book Synopsis Pacific Islanders Under German Rule by : Peter J. Hempenstall
Download or read book Pacific Islanders Under German Rule written by Peter J. Hempenstall and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an important book. It is a reprint of the first detailed study of how Pacific Islanders responded politically and economically to their rulers across the German empire of the Pacific. Under one cover, it captures the variety of interactions between the various German colonial administrations, with their separate approaches, and the leaders and people of Samoa in Polynesia, the major island centre of Pohnpei in Micronesia and the indigenes of New Guinea. Drawing on anthropology, new Pacific history insights and a range of theoretical works on African and Asian resistance from the 1960s and 1970s, it reveals the complexities of Islander reactions and the nature of protests against German imperial rule. It casts aside old assumptions that colonised peoples always resisted European colonisers. Instead, this book argues convincingly that Islander responses were often intelligent and subtle manipulations of their rulers’ agendas, their societies dynamic enough to make their own adjustments to the demands of empire. It does not shy away from major blunders by German colonial administrators, nor from the strategic and tactical mistakes of Islander leaders. At the same time, it raises the profile of several large personalities on both sides of the colonial frontier, including Lauaki Namulau’ulu Mamoe and Wilhelm Solf in Samoa; Henry Nanpei, Georg Fritz and Karl Boeder in Pohnpei; or Governor Albert Hahl and Po Minis from Manus Island in New Guinea.
Book Synopsis A Captive on a German Raider by : F. G. Trayes
Download or read book A Captive on a German Raider written by F. G. Trayes and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an interesting account of one man's five month captivity aboard the SMS Wolf, and then the prize ship the Igotz Mendi. He speaks of his initial capture, life aboard the two ships, and then the end of the war. While the Grand Fleet of the Imperial German Navy was restricted to the Northern Atlantic, there were several German surface raiders operating with frightening efficiency in the Pacific.
Book Synopsis Kriegsmarine Auxiliary Cruisers by : Gordon Williamson
Download or read book Kriegsmarine Auxiliary Cruisers written by Gordon Williamson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite being relatively unknown compared to famous ships like Graf Spee or Bismarke, or the more famous U-boats, the Auxiliary Cruisers were immensely successful, not only in the number of enemy ships they sank, but in the resources which were tied up trying to track them down. The Royal Navy's auxiliary cruisers tended to be merchant vessels used to protect convoys from attack. The German Auxiliary Cruisers, however, heavily armed and usually carried torpedo tubes as well as guns and even sometimes their own aircraft. These ships were aggressive predators, searching the sea lanes for unsuspecting enemy merchants, and were not only capable of destroying enemy merchant ships, but also of defending themselves against well-armed enemy warships. This book looks at the specifications and designs of the 11 Auxiliary Cruisers, as well as their combat histories, their eventual fates, and the careers of some of the most famous commanders.
Book Synopsis The Sea Devil - The Story Of Count Felix Von Luckner, The German War Raider by : Lowell Thomas
Download or read book The Sea Devil - The Story Of Count Felix Von Luckner, The German War Raider written by Lowell Thomas and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Book Synopsis The German Defense Of Berlin by : Oberst a.D. Wilhem Willemar
Download or read book The German Defense Of Berlin written by Oberst a.D. Wilhem Willemar and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often written during imprisonment in Allied War camps by former German officers, with their memories of the World War fresh in their minds, The Foreign Military Studies series offers rare glimpses into the Third Reich. In this study Oberst a.D. Wilhem Willemar discusses his recollections of the climatic battle for Berlin from within the Wehrmacht. “No cohesive, over-all plan for the defense of Berlin was ever actually prepared. All that existed was the stubborn determination of Hitler to defend the capital of the Reich. Circumstances were such that he gave no thought to defending the city until it was much too late for any kind of advance planning. Thus the city’s defense was characterized only by a mass of improvisations. These reveal a state of total confusion in which the pressure of the enemy, the organizational chaos on the German side, and the catastrophic shortage of human and material resources for the defense combined with disastrous effect. “The author describes these conditions in a clear, accurate report which I rate very highly. He goes beyond the more narrow concept of planning and offers the first German account of the defense of Berlin to be based upon thorough research. I attach great importance to this study from the standpoint of military history and concur with the military opinions expressed by the author.”-Foreword by Generaloberst a.D. Franz Halder.
