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Author |
: Michael L. Hadley |
Publisher |
: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 1990-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0773508015 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780773508019 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis U-Boats Against Canada by : Michael L. Hadley
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 close to home.
Author |
: Nathan M. Greenfield |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins Canada |
Total Pages |
: 417 |
Release |
: 2010-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781443401494 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1443401498 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Battle Of The St. Lawrence by : Nathan M. Greenfield
On May 11, 1942, a German U-boat torpedoed SS Nicoya, violently ending a peace in Canada’s waters that stretched back to 1812. By the end of 1944, another 18 merchant ships and four Canadian warships would be destroyed. More than 300 men, women and children—including at least 260 Canadians—died by explosion, fire or icy drowning. Drawing on numerous first-hand accounts from both Canadians and Germans, respected writer and historian Nathan Greenfield has penned a lively, revealing narrative, the first popular account of World War II in Canadian waters. This is a must-read for military history enthusiasts, veterans and their families.
Author |
: Marc Milner |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 392 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89058509597 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis The U-boat Hunters by : Marc Milner
The author's close look at RCN operations provides an important historical record of the role of a small-ship navy in the western alliance.
Author |
: Homer H Hickam |
Publisher |
: Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 1996-05-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781612515786 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1612515789 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Torpedo Junction by : Homer H Hickam
In 1942 German U-boats turned the shipping lanes off Cape Hatteras into a sea of death. Cruising up and down the U.S. eastern seaboard, they sank 259 ships, littering the waters with cargo and bodies. As astonished civilians witnessed explosions from American beaches, fighting men dubbed the area "Torpedo Junction." And while the U.S. Navy failed to react, a handful of Coast Guard sailors scrambled to the front lines. Outgunned and out-maneuvered, they heroically battled the deadliest fleet of submarines ever launched. Never was Germany closer to winning the war. In a moving ship-by-ship account of terror and rescue at sea, Homer Hickam chronicles a little-known saga of courage, ingenuity, and triumph in the early years of World War II. From nerve-racking sea duels to the dramatic ordeals of sailors and victims on both sides of the battle, Hickam dramatically captures a war we had to win--because this one hit terrifyingly close to home.
Author |
: Eric Wiberg |
Publisher |
: Fonthill Media |
Total Pages |
: 446 |
Release |
: 2019-11-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis U-Boats in New England by : Eric Wiberg
Starting weeks after Hitler declared war on the United States in mid-December 1941 and lasting until the war with Germany was all but over, 73 German U-Boats sustainably attacked New England waters, from Montauk New York to the tip of Nova Scotia at Cape Sable. Fifteen percent of these boats were sunk by Allied counter-attacks, five surrendered in the region, and three were sunk off New England--Block Island, Massachusetts Bay, and off Nantucket. These have proven appealing to divers, with a result that at least three German naval officers or ratings are buried in New England, one having killed himself in the Boston jail cell. There were 34 Allied merchant or naval ships sunk by these subs, one of them, the 'Eagle', was not admitted to have been sunk by the Germans until decades later. Over 1,100 men were thrown in the water and 545 of them made it ashore in New England ports; 428 were killed. Importantly, saboteurs were landed three places: Long Island, Frenchman's Bay Maine and New Brunswick Canada, and Boston was mined. Very little was known about this.
Author |
: Jordan Vause |
Publisher |
: Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2001-11-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781612513805 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1612513808 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis U-Boat Ace by : Jordan Vause
An exceptional figure in the history of the German Navy, Wolfgang Luth was one of only seven men in the Wehrmacht to win Germany's highest combat decoration, the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds. At one time or another he operated in almost every theater of the undersea war, from Norway to the Indian Ocean, and became the second most successful German U-boat ace in World War II, sinking more than 220,000 tons of merchant shipping. A master in the art of military leadership, Luth was the youngest man to be appointed to the rank of captain and the youngest to become commandant of the German Naval Academy. Nevertheless, his accomplishments were overshadowed by those of other great aces, such as Prien, Kretschmer, and Topp. The publication of this book in hardcover in 1990 marked the first comprehensive study of Luth's life. Jordan Vause corrects the long neglect by providing an entertaining and authoritative biography that places the ace in the context of the war at sea. This new paperback edition includes corrections and additional information collected by the author over the past decade.
Author |
: Edward Kay |
Publisher |
: Scholastic Canada |
Total Pages |
: 210 |
Release |
: 2014-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781443107815 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1443107816 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis I Am Canada: Sink and Destroy by : Edward Kay
If the Allies cannot send the German U-boats to the bottom of the Atlantic, all hope of winning WWII will be lost. Sixteen-year-old Bill O'Connell is a new recruit in the Royal Canadian Navy, assigned to a ship that hunts for Germany's feared U-boats. With the European mainland under Nazi occupation, safe ocean passage is critical -- but the Germans are building U-boats faster than the Allies can sink them, and Britain is starved of supplies. Every gallon of aviation fuel, every explosive shell, and every can of peas sent to the British Isles from North America has to be shipped by sea, so Bill and the rest of the Allied forces have the fate of the free world resting on their shoulders. If the Allies cannot keep their merchant ships from the attacks of Germany's U-boats, the odds of winning WWII will tip in favour of Hitler.
Author |
: Stephen Budiansky |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2013-11-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307743633 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307743632 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Blackett's War by : Stephen Budiansky
A Washington Post Notable Book In March 1941, after a year of devastating U-boat attacks, the British War Cabinet turned to an intensely private, bohemian physicist named Patrick Blackett to turn the tide of the naval campaign. Though he is little remembered today, Blackett did as much as anyone to defeat Nazi Germany, by revolutionizing the Allied anti-submarine effort through the disciplined, systematic implementation of simple mathematics and probability theory. This is the story of how British and American civilian intellectuals helped change the nature of twentieth-century warfare, by convincing disbelieving military brass to trust the new field of operational research.
Author |
: Gaylord Kelshall |
Publisher |
: US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages |
: 594 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000042828289 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis The U-boat War in the Caribbean by : Gaylord Kelshall
Reprint of the account of WWII submarine operations in the Caribbean, originally published by Paria Pub. Co., Trinidad in 1988, with a new (one page) foreword. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author |
: Marc Milner |
Publisher |
: US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages |
: 392 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015032315429 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis The U-boat Hunters by : Marc Milner
The Royal Canadian Navy is best known for its role in the defence of convoys against attacks by U-boats, particularly those in the mid-Atlantic from 1941 to 1943. Marc Milner's 1985 book, North Atlantic Run: The Royal Canadian Navy and the Battle for the Convoys, was the first scholarly analysis of those crucial defensive operations. The U-Boat Hunters takes up the story for the last two years of the war, when the measurement of operational effectiveness at sea shifted from success in defending convoys to the ability to hunt down and sink U-boats. The U-Boat Hunters, which completes Milner's analysis of the RCN's battle with Germany's submarines, is a pioneering study of the final years of the Atlantic war and a landmark work in both Canadian and modern naval history.