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Author : Harold Auten
Publisher : London : H. Jenkins Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book "Q" Boat Adventures written by Harold Auten and published by London : H. Jenkins Limited. This book was released on 1919 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Greentree
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782002855
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Q Ship vs U-Boat written by David Greentree and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Q ships came in all shapes and sizes – coastal steamer, trawler, barque, yacht or schooner – but all had to look harmless in order to lure their opponents to the surface and encourage them to attack. Armaments differed according to ship size; steamers commonly had 4in guns mounted amidships and in the bow, trawlers 3-pdrs and sailing ships 12-pdrs. Those who served on Q ships had to accept that their U-boat opponents would be able to strike first. Q ship captains kept ready a 'panic crew', which was trained to act out an elaborate evacuation to convince the U-boat commander that the ship was being abandoned by its crew. The Q ship captain would remain behind with a handful of other crewmen manning the guns, which remained hidden until the most opportune time to unmask and engage the U-boat. The Q ship concept had emerged early in the war when no other method seemed likely to counter the U-boat threat, and flourished until new technologies and tactics were developed, tested and implemented.
Author : Spencer Tucker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135684251
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book European Powers in the First World War written by Spencer Tucker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996. The First World War was the single most important event of the twentieth century. This volume concentrates on non-U.S. aspects of the conflict. Organized alphabetically, its more than 600 detailed entries offer information and insight on such subjects as the causes of the conflict, major battles and campaigns, weapons systems (including military aviation, chemical warfare, the submarine, and the tank), and the terms of the peace. Some 350 biographies provide information on the roles played in the conflict by generals, admirals, and civilian leaders. There are also biographies of individuals who were shaped by the war, such as Charles De Gaulle, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin; essays on each of the countries involved in the conflict; new appraisals of such subjects as military medicine and artillery tactics; and essays on such diverse subjects as art, literature, and music in the war. Each entry has references for additional reading, and a subject index provides easy access. The volume is an excellent reference source for scholar and neophyte alike.
Author : Frank Arthur Mumby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Great World War written by Frank Arthur Mumby and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sergio Ruzzier
Publisher : Chronicle Books LLC
ISBN 13 : 1452153612
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)
Download or read book Fox & Chick: The Quiet Boat Ride written by Sergio Ruzzier and published by Chronicle Books LLC. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second book of this lauded series, Fox and Chick are off on three new adventures involving a boat ride, a mysterious box, and an early morning trip to see the sunrise. Despite the antics ensuing from their opposite personalities, the contradictory duo always manages to find a happy center. This early chapter book in comic-book form is perfect for emerging readers, while the sweet and funny characters and captivating art hold appeal for picturebook audiences as well.
Author : Edwyn A Gray
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 0850524059
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)
Download or read book The U-Boat War written by Edwyn A Gray and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1994-04-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2.20PM Directly in front of us I sighted four funnels and the masts of a passenger steamer at right angles to our course coming from the SW and going towards Galley Head. 3:10 PM Torpedo shot at a distance of 700 meters below the surface - from the log of the German submarine U-20. The explosion that followed changed history as the date of the ship's log was may 7, 1915, the steamer was the Lusitania, and the torpedo sent 1195 innocent men, women, and children to a watery grave. In 1914, U-Boats were a new and untried weapon, and when such a weapon can bring a mighty empire to the briink of defeat there is a story worth telling. Edwyn Gray's The U-Boat War is the history of the Kaiser's attempt to destroy the British Empire by a ruthless campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare. It opens with Germany's first tentative experiments with the submarines and climaxes with the naval mutiny that helped bring down the Kaiser. In between is is a detailed account of a campaign of terror which, by April 1917,had the British Empire on the verge of surrender. The cost in lives and equipment was staggering. On the German side, 4894 sailors and 515 officers lost their lives in action; 178 German Submarines were destroyed by the allies; 14 were scuttled and 122 surrendered. According to the most reliable sources, 5,708 ships were destroyed by the U-Boats and 13,333 non-combatants perished in British Ships. World figures for civilian casualties were never released The U-Boat War is a savage but thrilling account of men fighting for their lives beneath the sea, and of the boats that changed the face of naval warfare.
Author : John Winton
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1473876141
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book The Victoria Cross at Sea written by John Winton and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naval VCs have been won in places as far apart in time and distance as the Baltic in 1854 and Japan in 1945, in the trenches from the Crimea to the Western Front, in harbours from Dar es Salaam to Zeebrugge, from the Barents to the Java Sea, from New Zealand to the North Atlantic, and from China to the Channel. They have been won in battleships and trawlers, in submarines below the water and aircraft above it, on horseback and on foot.Age and rank meant nothing. Boy Cornwall was not seventeen at Jutland, and Frederick Parslow was in his sixtieth year when he earned his VC on board a horse transport ship. William Hall was the son of a freed slave; Charles Lucas, awarded the Royal Navys first VC, became a Rear Admiral. Neither were all the recipients of Britains highest gallantry decoration British, and men from Canada, Australia and New Zealand were included in those whose actions were recognised by the awarding of the VC. Yet every one of them had one thing in common uncommon valour.
Author : Ron Martini
Publisher : Ron Martini
ISBN 13 : 1932606149
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (326 download)
Download or read book The Submariner's Dictionary Or Submariner's Compendium of Terms & Tar's Handbook of Naval Verbiage and Retired Guy's Re-familiarization Manual written by Ron Martini and published by Ron Martini. This book was released on 2005 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Submariners are a tight knit group of men bound together by training and experience, and with a language all their own. That language is perhaps a little vulgar, but never intentionally demeaning, and a little irreverent but still worldly. This work is an attempt to preserve and explain some of these curious guys who so proudly wear a shiny metal pin that looks like a strange pair of fish on their left breast. This process of accumulating this new language begins in Boot Camp, and is added to with every change of duty station the sailor undergoes. It is heard aboard the boats and, unknowingly, by family members who can't understand terms like head, deck, and overhead, and who think SOS is a distress signal.
Author : Harold Auten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (588 download)
Download or read book Q Boat Adventures written by Harold Auten and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Mayhew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Punch written by Henry Mayhew and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ron Martini
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595208258
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Hot Straight and Normal written by Ron Martini and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hot Straight and Normal is a submarine bibliography with over 6000 references to books, videos, articles and Internet sources. It is designed to assist reseachers, historians, students, teachers, collectors and others with an interest in submarines, their history, construction and use in wars worldwide. It's unique format of listing the books by title, will assists the researcher and casual reader alike in finding or searching for familiar words and subjects. Fiction book titles are also included. Each listing contains title, author, date published, publisher, page count, ISBN number and other informative descriptions if known. This is the only submarine bibliography currently in publication. The article index includes all articles in all issues of Naval Submarine League’s Submarine Review and Naval Institute’s Naval Proceedings magazine. There are Web sites and other Internet sources listed and even information on obtaining more information through the Freedom of Information Act. Also included is how to find materials inside government archives. Collected and edited by a former U.S. submariner and member of U.S. Submarine Veterans Inc.
Author : Lorraine Spindler
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473843936
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Leatherhead in the Great War written by Lorraine Spindler and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the twentieth century, Leatherhead was alive with celebration. The Boer War had ended in May 1902, King Edward VIIs Coronation followed in August and the had town blossomed into one of prosperous development.Things quickly changed when the war broke out in 1914, leaving the town papered with recruiting posters and swarming with soldiers. The upheaval was especially felt by the local families as they initially waved off over 400 Leatherhead men into the forces. Those left behind attempted to live a normal life in extraordinary circumstances, with Zeppelin raids in nearby Guildford and Croydon, which encouraged Leatherheads newspapers to offer insurance against the destruction of homes, the banning of lights after dark and fines for those who ignored the dictates. Added to the locals distress was the news of the high casualty rate of local soldiers and those previously billeted in the town, wiped out at the Battle of Delville Wood.The spring of 1918 felt especially bleak with shortages of food, labour, fuel and little prospect of an end to the conflict. However, later that year the end of war was finally declared. Of the 983 Leatherhead men who served, 163 were dead.On 19 July 1919, Leatherhead joined with the nation to celebrate peace. A lunch for returning servicemen was laid out and a procession of over 2,000 Leatherhead residents proceeded to Randalls Park. As the Silver Band played the town rejoiced with fireworks, dancing and the customary bonfire. Though warmed by the flames of celebration, Leatherhead was irrevocably altered.
Author : Nicholas Jellicoe
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1036109046
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Jellicoe’s War: The U-boat Threat in World War One and the Question of Convoy written by Nicholas Jellicoe and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-19 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a fresh look at the undersea war as a whole and all the complex factors bearing on the campaign, only one of which was convoy. Its analysis is original, and its conclusions thought-provoking – an important contribution to the naval history of the Great War.
Author : William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Best Books: F, History and historical biography. G, Archaeology and historical collaterals. 1923 written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book F, History and historical biography. G, Archaeology and historical collaterals. 1923 written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book The Best Books written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
