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Download or read book Torpedo Raiders written by Gary Graber and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torpedo Raiders, Advanced Edition is Vol. 2 of Minden's Battlegame book series, containing a solitaire World War 2 air combat game of strategy. Players take the role of a pilot in a variety of torpedo bombers (Fairey Swordfish, Nakajima B5N Kate, Douglas Devastator, Mitsubishi G3M Nell, Mitsubishi G4M Betty) and fly through dangerous flak and deliver its torpedo against enemy warships. Five historical scenarios are included: Taranto (1940), Bismarck (1941), Pearl Harbor (1941), Force Z (1941), and Midway (1942), plus advanced scenarios as well. All necessary rules (standard, optional, and advanced), game tables, and plane ratings are provided; all you need to supply is a regular deck of cards, and a six-sided die. Like all Minden designs, this game emphasizes playability and authenticity. Torpedo Raiders is small enough to be played almost anywhere. There is little set up time, and a single game can be played in a few minutes. (Historical scenarios--consisting of a series of games--vary in time, from less than an hour, to two hours). Designed by Gary Graber. Published by Minden Games.
Download or read book Raiders written by John Laffin and published by Alan Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During WW2 a number of daring raids were carried out by Allied and Axis forces against targets carefully selected for their strategic or propaganda values. Raiders relates over 20 such operations, with the emphasis on attacks mounted by the British.
Book Synopsis German Capital Ships and Raiders in World War II by : Eric Grove
Download or read book German Capital Ships and Raiders in World War II written by Eric Grove and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comnpendium volume of three Battle Summaries or Naval Staff Histories produced soon after the war by the Naval Historical Branch of the Admiralty. Originally classified and designed for internal use only, these histories are published here for the first time. The documents in this book cover the actions during the period 1939-1941 that resulted in the sinking or immobilising of the German Warships Birsmark and Graf Spee, and record the struggle to rid the seas of the menace of the armed merchants raiders.
Book Synopsis German Capital Ships and Raiders in World War II: From Graf Spee to Bismarck, 1931-1941 by : Eric Grove
Download or read book German Capital Ships and Raiders in World War II: From Graf Spee to Bismarck, 1931-1941 written by Eric Grove and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Raiders of the Deep by : Lowell Thomas
Download or read book Raiders of the Deep written by Lowell Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 400 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:
Book Synopsis Atlantic Convoys and Nazi Raiders by : Bruce A. Watson
Download or read book Atlantic Convoys and Nazi Raiders written by Bruce A. Watson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-12-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November of 1940, the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer attacked British Convoy HX-84. The merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay, a converted passenger liner that was the convoy's only escort—armed only with antique 6-inch guns—charged the Nazi raider. While the Jervis Bay did not stand a chance of surviving the battle, her crew's fatalistic bravery inspired awe in all who witnessed the fight. Watson recounts how the Scheer's 11-inch guns turned the ship into a burning hulk in twenty-two minutes, but most of the convoy escaped. In November of 1940, the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer attacked British Convoy HX-84. The Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Jervis Bay, the only escort and mounting antique 6-inch guns, charged the Nazi raider. While the Jervis Bay did not stand a chance of surviving the battle, her crew's fatalistic bravery inspired awe in all who witnessed the fight. Watson describes how the Scheer's 11-inch guns turned the converted passenger liner into a burning hulk in twenty-two minutes, but most of the convoy escaped. How did this confrontation come to pass? Both the necessity of arming a passenger liner and pretending it was a warship, and the building of the Admiral Scheer and her sister ships for the express purpose of commerce raiding, find their roots in the events, political decisions, re-armament polices, war plans, naval traditions, and blunders that arose in pre-war Britain and Germany. But this event holds a significance beyond the battle itself. The sinking of the Jervis Bay symbolizes the end of an era in naval warfare. The Armed Merchant Cruisers of the Second World War inherited a long, sometimes noble and sometimes ignoble history. Long employed in blockade or patrol duty, armed merchant cruisers ventured out for the first time to escort convoys, a defensive duty for which they were eminently unsuited, and for which the Jervis Bay paid a fearful price.
Book Synopsis Beware Raiders! by : Bernard Edwards
Download or read book Beware Raiders! written by Bernard Edwards and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-07-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A British naval historian recounts the victories and defeats of two of the most infamous German Navy vessels during World War II. Bernard Edwards’s Beware Raiders! tells the fascinating story of two German ships and the havoc they caused amongst Allied shipping in World War II. One was the eight-inch gun cruiser Admiral Hipper—named for World War I’s German fleet Admiral Franz von Hipper—fast, powerful, and Navy-manned. The other was a converted merchant man, Hansa Line’s Kandelfels armed with a few old scavenged guns manned largely by reservists, and sailing under the nom de guerre Pinguin. The difference between the pride of the Third Reich’s Kriegsmarine’s fleet and the converted cruiser was even more evident in their commanders. Edwards emphasizes the striking contrast between the conduct of Ernst Kruder, captain of the Pinguin, who attempted to cause as little loss of life as possible, and the callous Iron Cross–decorated Wilhelm Meisel of the Admiral Hipper, who had scant regard for the lives of the men whose ships he had sunk. Contrary to all expectations, as Edwards reveals in his thrilling accounts of the missions performed by each ship, the amateur man-of-war reaped a rich harvest and went out in a blaze of glory. The purpose-built battlecruiser, on the other hand, was hard-pressed even to make her mark on the war and ended her days in ignominy.
Download or read book Torpedo Leader written by Patrick Gibbs and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2008-08-21 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WWII wing commander’s “adrenaline-charged account of torpedo attacks a few feet above the sea” (The Daily Telegraph). In this vivid and very personal story, written during World War II at the height of action, Patrick Gibbs expresses the frustrations, triumphs, and disasters he experienced in his roles as both a staff officer in Cairo and a Beaufort flight commander on the anti-shipping operations from Malta in 1942. With photographs and maps included, this is an exciting inside look at the world of military aviation and one man’s view of the war.
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 Torpedoes Away! by : Maxwell Hawkins
Download or read book Torpedoes Away! written by Maxwell Hawkins and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torpedoes Away! details US Navy submarine operations during the first 18 months of World War Two. Author Maxwell Hawkins breathlessly covers the tense, dangerous missions of submarines USS Trout, Sea Raven, Pollack, Skipjack, Cuttlefish, and others. Between these first-hand reports stitched-together from interviews with crewmen, Hawkins describes the mechanical workings of submarines, as well as the history of submersibles beginning in the 17th Century. He spent over a year sifting through the archives of the Navy Department and conducted extensive interviews with many veteran submariners about their experiences in the Pacific during World War Two. The result is a classic study of underwater warfare, a must read for military historians and World War 2 buffs.
Book Synopsis The Secret Raiders by : David Woodward
Download or read book The Secret Raiders written by David Woodward and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Commando by : John F. Wukovits
Download or read book American Commando written by John F. Wukovits and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an account of how Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson helped lay the foundation for Special Forces in the modern military through his leadership of the 2nd Raider Battalion in the jungles of Guadalcanal during World War II where he and his troops employed guerilla tactics against an entrenched Japanese force to disrupt their supply chain, inflict combat defeats, and gather valuable intelligence.
Book Synopsis The Midget Raiders by : Charles Esme Thornton Warren
Download or read book The Midget Raiders written by Charles Esme Thornton Warren and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Britain's human torpedoes and midget submarines
Download or read book Temple written by Matthew Reilly and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blockbuster thriller from bestselling author Matthew Reilly. Four centuries ago, a precious idol was hidden in the jungles of Peru. To the Incan people, it is still the ultimate symbol of their spirit. To William race, an American linguist enlisted by the U.S. Army to decipher the clues to its location, it's the ultimate symbol of the apocalypse... Carved from a rare stone not found on Earth, the idol possesses elements more destructive than any nuclear bomb--a virtual planet killer. In the wrong hands it could mean the end of mankind. And whoever possesses the idol, possesses the unfathomable--and cataclysmic--power of the gods... Now, in the foothills of the Andes, Race's team has arrived--but they're not alone. And soon they'll discover that to penetrate the temple of the idol is to break the first rule of survival. Because some treasures are meant to stay buried..and forces are ready to kill to keep it that way...
Book Synopsis The Patterns of War Since the Eighteenth Century by : Larry H. Addington
Download or read book The Patterns of War Since the Eighteenth Century written by Larry H. Addington and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This important work . . . synthesizes the evolution of warfare from 1775 to the present." —Military Review A thorough revision of a highly successful text, this new edition provides a comprehensive picture of the evolution of modern warfare. From reviews of the first edition: "There is nothing else in print that tells so much so concisely about how war has been conducted since the days of Gen. George Washington." —Russell F. Weigley "A superior synthesis. Well written, nicely organized, remarkably comprehensive, and laced with facts." —Military Affairs
Download or read book D-Day, 1944 written by Theodore A. Wilson and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1994 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Readers may be astonished at how much scholarly digging and the release of once-secret information have transformed the history of this campaign. At times it seems like a whole new war". -- New York Times Book Review.
