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Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunted: 1939-1942.
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(Wed May 22 01:12:13 2024) | AbebooksDE | Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß | ISBN10: 0394588398, ISBN13: 9780394588391, [publisher: Random House.] Hardcover First Edition XVIII, 809 Seiten / p. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar / a good and clean copy - CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- LIST OF MAPS -- LIST OF PLATES -- PROLOGUE -- BACKGROUND FOR WAR -- Early Developments -- U-boats in World War I -- Treaties, Disarmament, and Submarines -- The Rebirth of the German Navy -- A Dramatic Reconversion -- To the Eve of War -- BOOK ONE -- THE U-BOAT WAR AGAINST THE BRITISH EMPIRE -- September 1939-DECEMBER 1941 -- ONE -- "To Die Gallantly" -- The Boat -- Complicated Rules -- "Winston Is Back" -- Hits and Misses -- Encounters with Ark Royal -- "A Wonderful Success" -- North Sea Patrols -- Poised for a Naval Race -- TWO -- Plans and Problems -- Prien in Scapa Flow -- The First Wolf Pack -- Atlantic U-boat Operations: October-December 1939 -- Minelaying -- U-boat Countermeasures -- Atlantic Operations: January and February 1940 -- The U-boat Failure in Norway -- Return to the North Atlantic -- Great Britain at Risk -- "Happy Time": The June Slaughter -- First Patrols from Lorient -- The August Slaughter -- Strategies, Secrets, and Deals -- More Happy Times -- The October Slaughter -- Serious British Lapses -- FOUR -- A Brutal Winter -- Knitting Anglo-American Relations -- Unhappy Times -- Attacking Naval Enigma -- "The Battle of the Atlantic" -- The Loss of Prien -- The Loss of Schepke and Kretschmer -- More Bad News -- Declining Prospects -- A Slight British Lead -- FIVE -- Flower Petals of Rare Beauty -- "Sink the Bismarck" -- Rich Trophies in West African Waters -- June Patrols to the North Atlantic -- A Revealing Convoy Battle -- Coastal Command -- Indigo -- Barbarossa: The Baltic and the Arctic -- July Patrols to the North Atlantic -- The Atlantic Charter -- August Patrols to the North Atlantic -- The Capture of U-570 -- SIX -- Allied Naval Operations -- German Naval Operations -- The North Atlantic Run -- Another Fierce Convoy Battle 367 "We Are at War" 373 Patrols to West Africa 381 In Support of Rommel 388 ¦ The Crisis in the Mediterranean 395 The Loss of Kota Pinang, Atlantis, and Python 404 An Epic Convoy Battle 408 ¦ Assessments 418 -- BOOK TWO -- THE U-BOAT WAR AGAINST THE AMERICAS -- December 1941-AuGUST 1942 -- SEVEN -- Japan Strikes 431 A New War 436 ¦ The "Norway Paranoia" 442 "All We Need Is Ships" 444 A New Convoy Plan 452 Beats on the Drum 460 First -- Antisubmarine Technology 475 ¦ German Diversions and Delays 482 More -- Failures in Gibraltar-Azores Waters 488 -- EIGHT -- The Loss of Naval Enigma 493 First Type VII Patrols to the United States 497 First Forays to the West Indies and Caribbean 503 Unforeseen and Unplanned -- Convoy Attacks 509 Another Heavy Blow 513 ¦ Heated Exchanges 521 Global Naval Challenges 527 Hardegens Second Patrol 533 A Spectacular Foray 538 Patrols to Other Waters 548 Sharing Deep Secrets 556 -- NINE -- The British Raid on St. Nazaire -- Hitlers Doubts and Promises 561 Strategic Victories at Coral Sea and Midway 564 Penetrating Gulfs 567 Difficult Hunting on the East Coast 573 Slaughter in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea 578 Allied Oil Problems Mount 588 The Argonaut Conference 592 Group Hecht 598 Mines, Agents, and Mishaps 602 More Record Patrols by the Type IXs 610 -- TEN -- The Shifting Character of the U-boat War 617 ¦ June Patrols to the Americas -- Sharply Diminishing Returns from the Type The Arctic: Convoy PQ 17 638 The Mediterranean: Supporting Rommel 645 Return to the North Atlantic Run 654 Return to the Middle and South Atlantic 668 Further Patrols to the Americas 674 More Poor Returns from the Type IXs 681 Withdrawal from the Caribbean 685 ¦ Assessments 691 -- APPENDICES -- L Oceangoing U-boats Assigned to Combat: The First Three Years: August 1939-August 1942 701 -- 2- U-boat Patrols to the North Atlantic: August 1939-August 1942 -- 3- U-boat Patrols to the South Atlantic: October 1940-August 1942 -- 4 U-boat Patrols to the Americas: December 1941-August 1942 -- U-boats Assigned to the Arctic Area: July 1941-August 1942 -- U-boats Transferred to the Mediterranean Sea: September 1941-August 1942 -- 7. Sinkings by Type 11 U-boats ( Uucks ) : -- 8. Italian Submarines Based in the Atlantic 739 -- 9. The British Destroyer Situation 1939-1941 74i -- 10. The Canadian Destroyer Situation 1939-1945 746 -- 11. Exchange of Ocean-Escort Vessels Other Than Destroyers Between the -- Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy 1942-1944 747 -- 12. The American Destroyer Situation: January 1942-September 1942 -- 13. American Destroyer Escort and Frigate Building Programs -- 14. American Patrol Craft-Building Program in World War II: -- January 1, 1942-July 1, 1942 -- 15. Ocean-Escort Vessels Lent by the Royal Navy to the -- U.S. Navy 1942-1943 -- 16. Employment of Atlantic Fleet Destroyers as Escorts for Troopship and -- Special-Cargo Convoys and for Other Tasks: November 1941-September 1942 -- 17. Allied Tanker Losses to Axis Submarines in the Atlantic Ocean Area: September 1939-December 1942 -- 18. Allied and Neutral Ships and Tonnage Sunk by German and Italian Submarines in World War II: September 3, 1939-August 31,1942 -- LIST OF MAPS -- The British Isles and Northern Germany -- North Atlantic Convoy Routes -- The Arctic -- Bay of Biscay -- The Mediterranean -- Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean xxviii- -- United States East Coast -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND SOURCES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Ships -- U-boats -- General. ISBN 9780394588391 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1350 Originalpappband mit Originalumschlag / Originalhardcover with dust jacket.
[Berlin, Germany] [Publication Year: 1996]
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