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(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) The story of the German Cruiser Emden. Alone in the Indian Ocean at the start of the First World War the Emden captured 19 merchant vessels. She also conducted daring attacks on Madras and Penang tyeing up one fifth of the British Naval resources rendering the area 'no… Read more about this item

(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) The author was a member of Donitz's Staff, and went to sea on U-Boats in the Second World War as an observer. His account of the U-Boat war is written with the benefit of his experiences. Green Boards rubbed, with the remains of a Boots Library sticker on… Read more about this item

(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) Used paperback. Rubbed at edges. well used but useful reference copy. Published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the Armada. An account of the Armada campaign and the events leading up to it including the execution of Queen Mary at Fotheringay, the 'singeing of the King of… Read more about this item

(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) There have been many changes since this was published in 1988 but still a useful reference book. In two parts, the first part is arranged in sections, each one covering a major category of fighting ship from submarines and aircraft carriers through to cruisers, destroyers, frigates and smaller… Read more about this item

(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) As the war developed all nations used frogmen for a variety of roles including placing limpet mines and the cutting of torpedo and submarine netting. These were among the bravest men of the Second World War. Divers enjoyed the new techniques of aqualungs, and the first were underwater… Read more about this item

(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) Mass market paperback, pages browning, showing signs of use but useful study copy. The story of German Supply ship The Nordmark and her sister ships Altmark, Ermland and Dithmarschen. (Published: 1975) (Publisher: Corgi Books) (ISBN: 0552097772) (Pagination: 302pp illustrations) (Condition: ) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) U-552 was one of the legendary U-boats of the Second World War. Under its commander Erich Topp, it carried out a total of ten operational patrols, sinking 30 ships and damaging three in a period of 20 months. In the days of the big convoy battles, when the… Read more about this item

(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) Mass market paperback. Rubbed in edges. Pages browning. The author was a German U-boat commander and served on five submarines from 1941 to 1945. He survived and this is his account. From the triumphant years of 1941 and 1942, when German U-boats nearly strangled Britain, to the final… Read more about this item

(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) Mass market paperback with creasing across the front cover. other than that Good. The later operations of 617 Squadron, this book steers away from typical accounts of the group, which dwell on this predominant feature of their service history.617 Squadron carried some of the most outstanding exploits of… Read more about this item

(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) Small paper covered pocket book featuring, Battleships, Battlecruisers and Aircraft Carriers. All ships on the Navy List are included as well as those ordered during the war even though some of these were eventually cancelled. The details given at the head of each class are for the year… Read more about this item

(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) Small paperback published in 1970 profusely illustrated with named examples for this period including Cruisers, Submarines, Sloops, Torpedo Boats and Aircraft carriers. (Published: 1972) (Publisher: Hamlyn) (ISBN: 0600002845) (Pagination: 159pp illustrations) (Condition: ) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) This edition revised and reset. Well used reflecting age and use, d/w torn and worn.Previous owner name on endpaper. All the Carriers, Command Ships, Submarines, Cruisers, Escorts, Destroyers and Frigates with details of tonnage, machinery and weapons (Published: 1963) (Pagination: Landscape format. 256pp illustrations) (Condition: ) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) Mass market paperback pages browning. On October 14th 1939 the battleship Royal Oak was at anchor at Scapa Flow when she was attacked by U-47 under the command of Lt Prien. She caught fire and within minutes rolled over and sank taking with her nearly 800 men who… Read more about this item

(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) Mass market paperback. Creased covers, pages browning. Accounts of Fleet Submarines of the US Navy in WWII - the author describes how American submarines tracked down, stalked then enemy in the actions of 10 boats against Japanese targets. (Published: 1974) (Publisher: Coronet) (ISBN: 0340186887) (Pagination: 301pp) (Condition: )… Read more about this item

(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) The wrecks of the the sunken U Boats off the US Coastal waters. With chapters on U-Boat evolution, World Wars I and II, and on each U-Boat examined: UC-97, UB-88, U-85, U-352, U-215, U-701, U-853, U-1105 and U-2513. How they were sunk, and details of the locations and… Read more about this item

(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) Mass market paperback. Covers creased, pages browning. good. The short and dramatic life of HMS Kelly 1939-41. the destroyer commanded by Earl Mountbatten (Published: 1974) (Publisher: New English Library) (ISBN: 0450017346) (Pagination: 220pp) (Condition: ) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) Mass market paperback. Pages browning. Good. On 3 July, 1940 units of the Royal Navy under Admiral Sommerville attacked and largely destroyed the French Fleet as it lay at it's mooorings at Mers-el-Kebir. Until two weeks before the French and the British had been allies but the British… Read more about this item

(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) Mass market paperback, pages browning at the edges. Very good. One of the Third Reich's "Strength Through Joy" cruise ships, commandeered in the Second World War as a transport. This is the story of its ill-fated voyage in the Baltic in January 1945, when it was sunk and… Read more about this item

(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) Second Edition. A collection of essays giving a Japanese perspective of the War in the Pacific in the words of former Japanese Naval officers. The accounts include Pearl Harbor, Philippines, Indian Ocean, Midway, Guadalcanal, Savo Island, Leyte Gulf, Kamikazi and the sinking of the Yamato. (Published: 1986) (Publisher:… Read more about this item

(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) In World War II, the Italian Navy created its secret Decima MAS — the Tenth Light Flotilla, with Prince Valerio Borghese one of its more effective commanders. Those frogmen were a bane to the Allied navy, especially the English. They blasted trails of destruction from Cadiz to Crete,… Read more about this item