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  • The Crippled Tanker

    by D. A. Rayner ...
    One U-boat against one destroyer would have been a fair — if deadly — match. But Captain John Murrell’s H.M.S. Hecate was towing a crippled tanker whose cargo was as dangerous as it was precious — four million gallons of high-octane gas! The U-boat commander was desperate: his career depended on sinking the tanker. If he failed, the Luftwaffe would send new long-range Heinkels to destroy the ... Read more

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  • The Enemy Below

    by D. A. Rayner ...
    One U-boat against one destroyer would have been a fair — if deadly — match. But Captain John Murrell’s H.M.S. Hecate was towing a crippled tanker whose cargo was as dangerous as it was precious — four million gallons of high-octane gas! The U-boat commander was desperate: his career depended on sinking the tanker. If he failed, the Luftwaffe would send new long-range Heinkels to destroy the ... Read more

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  • Escort: The Battle of the Atlantic. Illustrated

    by D. A. Rayner ...
    Escort: The Battle of the Atlantic by D. A. Rayner is an immersive and vividly detailed account of one of the most critical and protracted campaigns of the Second World War. Focusing on the maritime struggle that raged from 1939 to 1945, this book brings to life the strategic importance, brutal realities, and human drama of the Battle of the Atlantic — the lifeline upon which the survival of ... Read more

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  • Escort: The Battle of the Atlantic

    by D. A. Rayner ...
    This is the story of one man’s war and of the Royal Navy’s escort vessels — trawlers, corvettes and destroyers — that guarded Britain’s ocean life-lines across the Atlantic against the ravaging forays of U-Boats and surface raiders. This highly acclaimed firsthand account of convoy escort operations in the North Atlantic from 1939 to 1945 is based on Rayner's astonishing war record. ... Read more

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    Legendary U-Boat Commander, 1915–1918

    Weuner Frbringer (Fips) became one of the most successful U-Boat commanders in WW1 through a blend of skill, daring and, by his own typically modest admission, sheer luck. This vivid memoir, never before published in English, makes compelling reading.This is an inspiring and chivalrous story; it is ironic then that, when finally sunk by the Royal Navy off the East Coast of England, Fips was ... Read more

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  • Grey Wolf, Grey Sea

    Aboard the German Submarine U-124 in World War II

    by E. B. Gasaway ...
    The inside story of life aboard the deadly Nazi U-Boat that sank forty-nine ships.The history of one of World War II's most successful submarines, U-124, is chronicled in Grey Wolf, Grey Sea, from its few defeats to a legion of victories. Kapitanleutnant Jochen Mohr commanded his German submarine and navigated it through the treacherous waters of one of the most destructive, savage wars the world ... Read more

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  • Steel Boat, Iron Hearts

    A U-boat Crewman's Life Aboard U-505

    The story of the German submarine U-505 and its dramatic capture by the US Navy during WWII—told by one of its crewmen.Hans Goebeler is known as the man who "pulled the plug" on U-505 in 1944 to keep his beloved U-boat out of Allied hands. Steel Boat, Iron Hearts is his no-holds-barred account of service aboard a combat U-boat. It is the only full-length memoir of its kind, and Goebeler was aboard ... Read more

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  • Red Tobruk

    Memoirs of a World War II Destroyer Commander

    A Second World War hero, who played a leading role in the evacuation of Dunkirk . . . has published a fascinating account of his memories of the war."— Salisbury JournalFrank Gregory-Smith's war started on the destroyer Jaguar and he saw action off Norway and during the Dunkirk evacuation, when she was hit by enemy air attack with 25 men killed. Command of the new escort destroyer HMS Eridge ... Read more

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  • Surface!

    The classic novel of submarine warfare.Written with a blazing intensity, it is a stirring and compellingly authentic journey through the greatest conflict in history, drawing upon the author's first-hand experience.Surface! is Fullerton's first novel, released in 1953 and based on his own life as a submarine torpedo officer: a tale of one crew's hardship, camaraderie and great daring on board a ... Read more

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  • Stark Realities

    A thrilling World War One adventure from the author of the Nicholas Everard naval thrillers.It is October 1918 and Germany is suing for peace. All U-boats have been ordered home from patrol. Among them is U81, commanded by Otto von Mettendorff: young, dynamic, and infatuated with a girl who works near Wilhelmshaven, the port U81 is now returning to. Unfortunately, U81 is holed by a destroyer on ... Read more

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  • Wake Of The Wahoo

    From Pearl Harbor to her last and fatal voyage—the heroic story of America's most daring World War II submarine, as told by the only surviving member of the crew.The U.S.S. Wahoo was the most successful submarine in the World War II Pacific fleet. She was the first to penetrate an enemy harbor and sink a Japanese ship. She was the first to wipe out an entire enemy convoy single-handed. In her 11 ... Read more

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  • Killer Ship

    J.E. Macdonnell's Royal Australian Navy World War II Fiction, #12

    Series Book 12 - J.E. Macdonnell's Royal Australian Navy World War II Fiction
    It was a remarkable invention—a camera that could to take one brief, flash-lit shot of the night sea and discover with amazing clarity exactly what might be lurking out there in the darkness. But when the equipment was trialled aboard H. M. S. Wind Rode, it set in motion a chain of events that could only end in death.For there was a German submarine out there in the deeps, on its way to mine ... Read more

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