U-boats
A Navy Maverick Comes of Age, 1939-1945
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, c1977. First Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 152, illus., faint pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Neither Sharks Nor Wolves: The Men of Nazi Germany's U-Boat Arm, 1939-1945
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1999. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. xxv, [3], 340, [2] p. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. More
In Some Foreign Field: The Story of Four British Graves on the Outer Banks
Winston-Salem, NC: J. F. Blair, [1972]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 20 cm, 80, wraps, illus., pencil erasure on half-title, covers somewhat worn, soiled, and sticker residue. More
The Lone Survivor
London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. Third Printing. 255, some wear and soiling to DJ. More
The Admiral's Wolf Pack
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. First Edition. 396, bibliography, stray red mark on front board. More
The Admiral's Wolf Pack
Place_Pub: Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. First Edition. 396, bibliography, some discoloration inside boards, DJ soiled and stained: small tears and creases. More
The Admiral's Wolf Pack
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. First Edition. 396, bibliography, some soiling inside front board and flyleaf, DJ worn and stained: small tears, small pieces missing. More
Open Boats
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, [c1917]. 18 cm, 91, usual library markings, page 17/18 torn. More
The Cinderellas of the Fleet
Jersey City, NJ: Standard Motor Construction, [c1920]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 178, illus., tear at top of frontis (no damage to image), some page soiling. More
Abandoned Convoy; The U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II; The Full Story of the Debacle of Convoy P.Q.-17, Told for the First Time!
New York, N.Y. Exposition Press, 1970. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. 87, [3] pages. Footnotes. DJ has several small tears. Review copy slip laid in. Includes Preface and Acknowledgments. The subject of this book is the most catastrophic convoy loss of World War II. The result of naval intelligence failure, the tragedy is heightened because it could have been prevented. Here, for the first time, is the complete, unvarnished story of ill-fated Convoy P.Q.-17, made up of thirty-eight merchant ships, twenty-five of which, with their cargoes and many of their men, were sunk in the Arctic Ocean and the frigid Barents and White Seas. More
War Beneath the Sea: Submarine Conflict During World War II
New York: John Wiley, [1996]. First Printing. 24 cm, 560, acid-free paper, illus., maps. More
The Pirate of Tobruk: A Sailor's Life on the Seven Seas, 1916-1948
Annapolis. MD: Naval Institute Press, 1994. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. ix, 205 pages. Nautical Glossary. Illustrations. Map. Index. Minor soiling to rear endpaper. More
We Fight with Merchant Ships
Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1943]. First Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 307, illus., usual library markings, part of DJ cut off and pasted to front endpaper. More
U-Boats in the Mediterranean, 1941-1944
Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2007. First U.S. Edition, Presumed first printing. Hardcover. v, [1], 202 pages. Illustrations. Includes Acknowledgments, Glossary, Comparative Rank Table, Appendices, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. This work has chapters on The Spanish Civil War; U-boats into the Mediterranean; Success!; From West to East; Attrition; Operation 'Torch', France, Operation 'Husky' to Anzio; Between the Hammer and the Anvil--Retreat from France; and Retreat from Greece. Lawrence Paterson has spent many years researching aspects of German naval operations and has written more than ten books on various aspects of the Kreigsmarine, including Donitz's Last Gamble, Black Flag, Schnellboote, and, most recently, Hitler's Forgotten Flotillas, a study of the Kriegsmarine's security forces. The author wrote, on his website, that the desire to write about the U-boat service first began when I was living near Brest in Brittany, France. I am a scuba diving instructor and spent a great deal of time diving on wrecks left behind by the Kriegsmarine, all in the shadow of the huge U-boat bunkers created in Brest’s military harbor. In U-Boats in the Mediterranean, Lawrence Paterson puts the campaign into its strategic context, showing how it coordinated with Rommel's Afrika Korps in the Western Desert and the U-boat battle in the Atlantic. He describes the weapons and tactics the commanders used to try to overcome the difficulties of operating in the shallow waters and how increasing Allied dominance of the air took its heavy toll. More
Secret Weapons of World War II
New York: Ballantine Books, 1972. Third Printing. pocket paperbk, 351, wraps, illus., bibliography, index, covers somewhat worn and soiled, some page discoloration This was formerly published as The Secret War. Foreword by Nevil Shute. From classified government files comes the exciting story of the special weapons developed for attack and defense. Gerald Pawle, former Flag Lieutenant-Commander in the British Navy, tells of scientists and inventors in a fascinating, dangerous, and highly secret war, and of weapons--some of them never put to use. More
The Navy in Battle
London: Chatto & Windus, 1919. Second Printing. 371, color frontis illus., maps (some fold-out), pencil notes & underlining, ink name ins fr bd, rear bd weak, discolor ins bds. More
Atomic Submarines
Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1963. Revised printing, 1964. Hardcover. xiii, 286p., ill., 26 cm. Index. More
The Great Sea War; The Story of Naval Action in World War II
New York: Bramhall House, 1960. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. ix, [3], 468 pages. Occasional Footnotes. Maps. Illustrations. Index. DJ is price clipped and has ink notations on front flap. This was adapted from their work entitled Sea Power. Elmer Belmont "Ned" Potter (27 December 1908 – 22 November 1997) was an American historian and author. He was the leading naval historian at the United States Naval Academy from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s. He was editor of the Naval Academy's textbook on naval history, Sea Power: A Naval History, in collaboration with Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. In 1941, he joined the U.S. Naval Reserve and was assigned to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, where he began to teach history. With the exception of three years service in the Pacific theater in 1943-45, Potter spent his entire career at the Naval Academy until he retired in 1977. More
A Higher Form of Killing; Six Weeks In World War I That Forever Changed The Nature Of Warfare
New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2015. First U. S. Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 340, [2] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Maps. Notes and Sources. Bibliography. Index. DJ has minor wear and soiling. Diana Preston is an Oxford educated historian and author. Her book, Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World, is about the 1945 Yalta Conference. Drawn from original sources it relates and analyses what happened at Yalta from the perspective of all involved – from the three leaders, Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill, to more junior participants including the often overlooked role of the women present among whom were Roosevelt’s and Churchill’s daughters. Diana’s earlier books include the acclaimed ‘Before the Fallout – From Marie Curie to Hiroshima’ which won the Los Angeles Times Prize for Science and Technology; ‘Wilful Murder – The Sinking of the Lusitania” which was made into a full-length TV movie by the BBC, and American, French and German networks; ‘A Higher Form of Killing – Six Weeks in Spring 1915 that Changed the Nature of Warfare’, ‘Besieged in Peking – The 1900 Boxer Rebellion’ and ‘ A first- Rate Tragedy – Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole.’ Her non-fiction work has been translated into several languages including German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Korean. Diana often acts as a consultant to and appears in historical documentaries. Most recently she appeared in National Geographic’s ‘Origins’ series on which she was a consultant and script writer. More
The Illustrated History of WWII
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.75 inches by 11.125 inches. 256 pages. Maps (some in color). Illustrations (mostly black and white). Appendices. Index. DJ has a tear and depression at the lower spine. Some denting of the cover spine at this point also noted. This is a large and heavy book; is shipped outside of the Untied States, additional shipping costs will be required. Contents are: Key to Maps. List of Maps. Introduction. Why the Nations Went to War. German Success. Britain Along. The Russian Campaign, 1941-42. The Far East, 1941-42. Africa and the Mediterranean, 1940-43. War on Three Fronts, 1943-44. Bombs and Torpedoes. The End in Europe. The End in the Far East John Ray was a teacher for approximately four decades. In an active retirement he authored a number of WWII and education related studies. More
Conway's The War at Sea in Photographs, 1939-1945
London, England: Conway, 2007. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. 240 pages. Oversized book, measuring 12 inches by 10 inches. Minor sticker residue at back. Profusely illustrated with more than two-hundred black and white and some color photographs. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Picture Credits. Bibliography. Index. Stuart Robertson is a former staff editor for Conway Maritime Ltd. with a postgraduate degree from the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies at the University of Exeter. Books by Stuart Robertson include Conway's the War at Sea in Photographs, 1939-1945. Stephen Dent is the assistant editor of Conway's Warship annual. He also edited Conway's The War At Sea. More
Axis Submarine Successes, 1939-1945
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, c1983. First? Edition. First? Printing. 17 x 22 cm, 386, maps, footnotes, slight wear and soiling to DJ, bookplate removed from inside front board. More
Pig Boats; The True Account of the Fighting Submariners of World War II
Toronto, New York: Bantam Books, 1982. Authorized Abridgment, 8th Printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. xiii, [1], 449, [1] pages. Illustrations. Some wear/discoloration. This was originally published as United States Submarine Operations in World War II. It was written from records prepared by Rear Admiral R. G. Voge, Captain W. J. Holmes, Commander W. H. Hazzard, Lieut. Comdr. D. S. Graham, Lieut. H. Kuehn and from submarine patrols reports and data from the United States Strategic Bombing Survey. Includes Foreword by Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz; and Introduction by Rear Admiral R. G. Voge who captained the USS Sealion and the USS Sailfish. Chapters include Submarines to War; The Fighting Defense; All-Out Attrition; Pacific Sweep; and Japanese Sunset. An Authorized Account Dedicated to the Valiant Submariners of the U.S. Navy Who Lost Their Lives in World War II. Theodore Roscoe dramatically tells the true story of the Pacific showdown, as the submariners themselves recall all the nerve-shattering, depth-charging action from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay. This ‘standard’ in the study of submarine warfare. first published in 1949, abridged and repeatedly reprinted, remains the basic primer for those interested in the U.S. Navy's submarine war against the Axis in World War II. Based on war patrol reports, action reports, and other wartime (then) classified information. Enduring enough to be nicknamed ‘SUBOPS’, this well-regarded publication was commissioned by the Bureau of Naval Personnel and although not without error or fault, remains one of those books that are routinely listed as source material for almost any/all submarine works dealing with the WWII. More
Der Seekrieg; The German Navy's Story, 1939-1945
Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute, 1960. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [5], 426 pages. Endpaper maps. Foreword by William D. Leahy, Fleet Admiral, U. S. Navy. Occasional Footnotes. Charts. Diagrams. Illustrations. Index. DJ somewhat worn & discolored: DJ edges worn & small edge tears/chips. Friedrich Oskar Ruge (24 December 1894 – 3 July 1985) was an officer in the German Navy and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. He served as the first commander (Inspector of the Navy) of the post-war German Navy. Friedrich Ruge joined the Imperial German Navy as a cadet in March 1914, he was soon a participant in the 1914, 1915, and 1916 Baltic Sea operations. In 1917 and 1918, he sailed with the destroyer raids in the North Sea and English Channel. For the next two decades he concentrated on mines and mine warfare. From 1928 to 1932, he had staff roles associated with mine and torpedo warfare, and in September 1932 became commanding officer of the 1st Half-Flotilla of minesweepers. On 1 June 1937, Ruge was appointed Führer der Minensuchboot (FdM). From 1940 to 1943, he was stationed in France, rising through the upper ranks to become Vice Admiral in 1943. He was appointed as Naval Advisor to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in November 1943 to supervise the defense of northern France from the predicted Allied invasion. In August 1944, he became the Kriegsmarine's Director of Ship Construction, a position in which he served till the end of World War II. Called out of retirement when Germany became a part of NATO, Ruge was appointed Inspector of the Navy, a post he occupied until 1961. More