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U-boats of the second World War : their longest voyages / Jak P. Mallmann Showell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: [Stroud] : Fonthill Media, 2017Edition: Paperback editionDescription: 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1781556342
  • 9781781556344
Subject(s): Summary: Ocean-going U-boats, each one not much longer than four European articulated lorries with up to sixty men inside them, sailed the far-off seas to reap havoc in hot inhospitable waters. The air forces and navies from Britain, the United States and other colonial countries followed to make this a daring and death-threatening venture. The facts of what the U-boats achieved against massive odds have been told before, but 'U-Boats of the Second World War: Their Longest Voyages' is different. It concentrates more on how it was done. How the men survived, how they lived and died and how they still found time to carry out their orders. The book is based on masses of previously unpublished documents from the German U-boat Museum, many of them written during or shortly after the war by men who survived this bitter conflict. This is the story of how specially built long-range ocean-going U-boats started out one step ahead of the Allied navies and air power, how they fell one step behind and how they finally vanished into the depths of the biggest and deepest oceans.This is a remarkable story of endurance, courage and comradeship that terrified the world for the most critical period of the Second World War. The author, Jak P. Mallmann Showell, is the son of a U-boat diesel mechanic who disappeared in those warm waters two months before the author was born.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Ocean-going U-boats, each one not much longer than four European articulated lorries with up to sixty men inside them, sailed the far-off seas to wreak havoc in hot inhospitable waters. The air forces and navies from Britain, the United States and other colonial countries followed to make this a daring and death-threatening venture.

The facts of what the U-boats achieved against massive odds have been told before, but U-Boats of the Second World War: Their Longest Voyages is different. It concentrates more on how it was done. How the men survived, how they lived and died and how they still found time to carry out their orders. The book is based on masses of previously unpublished documents from the German U-boat Museum, many of them written during or shortly after the war by men who survived this bitter conflict.

This is the story of how specially built long-range ocean-going U-boats started out one step ahead of the Allied navies and air power, how they fell one step behind and how they finally vanished into the depths of the biggest and deepest oceans. This is a remarkable story of endurance, courage and comradeship that terrified the world for the most critical period of the Second World War.

The author, Jak P. Mallmann Showell, is the son of a U-boat diesel mechanic who disappeared in those warm waters two months before the author was born.

Ocean-going U-boats, each one not much longer than four European articulated lorries with up to sixty men inside them, sailed the far-off seas to reap havoc in hot inhospitable waters. The air forces and navies from Britain, the United States and other colonial countries followed to make this a daring and death-threatening venture. The facts of what the U-boats achieved against massive odds have been told before, but 'U-Boats of the Second World War: Their Longest Voyages' is different. It concentrates more on how it was done. How the men survived, how they lived and died and how they still found time to carry out their orders. The book is based on masses of previously unpublished documents from the German U-boat Museum, many of them written during or shortly after the war by men who survived this bitter conflict. This is the story of how specially built long-range ocean-going U-boats started out one step ahead of the Allied navies and air power, how they fell one step behind and how they finally vanished into the depths of the biggest and deepest oceans.This is a remarkable story of endurance, courage and comradeship that terrified the world for the most critical period of the Second World War. The author, Jak P. Mallmann Showell, is the son of a U-boat diesel mechanic who disappeared in those warm waters two months before the author was born.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction (p. 7)
  • 1 Very Long Range Ocean-going U-boats (p. 11)
  • 2 Very Long Distance U-boat Voyages - A Summary of Operations (p. 27)
  • 3 Germany's Foreign Connections (p. 60)
  • 4 Submarine Cargo Carriers (p. 73)
  • 5 German Bases in Distant Waters (p. 83)
  • 6 Life in Long Distance U-boats (p. 93)
  • 7 First Moves Far Afield: Freetown and Florida (p. 116)
  • 8 U180 - The First U-boat with Motor Torpedo Boat Engines (p. 130)
  • 9 U195 - The Other Type with Motor Torpedo Boat Engines (p. 140)
  • 10 At the Receiving End - Torpedoes, Depth Charges and Mines (p. 148)
  • 11 U178 - The First Thrust to South Africa (p. 161)
  • 12 U178 - The Second Thrust to the Indian Ocean (p. 187)
  • 13 U178 Reaches Penang in the Far East (p. 202)
  • 14 An Unpretentious End and a Miraculous Journey (p. 216)
  • 15 Balloons and Autogyros (p. 226)
  • Bibliography (p. 236)
  • Index (p. 237)

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