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Steel and Ice
The U-Boat Battle in the Arctic and Black Sea, 1941-1945
By Lawrence Paterson
As the land war raged along the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945, an equally fierce and unrelenting war ensued on the seas. From German Wolf Pack attacks on Russian convoy traffic and military vessels to close-quarter combat undertaken by small U-boats transported by land and river to the Black Sea, the Kriegsmarine wrestled for control of the seas fringing ...
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Eleven Months to Freedom
A German POW's Unlikely Escape from Siberia in 1915
By Dwight R. Messimer
Eleven Months to Freedom recounts the daring World War I escape of German midshipman Erich Killinger. Falsely accused of bombing a railway station after crashing his plane at sea, he was sentenced to life in the Sakhalin coal mines.

Shipped by rail with several other POWs across Russia, Killinger was determined to return home. In order to do this, though ...

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Voyage to a Thousand Cares
Master's Mate Lawrence with the African Squadron, 1844-1846
By C. Herbert Gilliland

In 1844 the USS Yorktown sailed from New York, as part of the U.S. Navy's newly established African Squadron, to interdict slave ships leaving the African coast. Aboard the sloop of war, Master's Mate John C. Lawrence, an educated New Yorker in his early twenties, kept a private journal describing what happened during the extraordinary two-year voyage and his reactions ...

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Eagles over the Sea, 1943-45
A History of Luftwaffe Maritime Operations
By Lawrence Paterson

This is the second volume of Lawrence Paterson’s detailed account of all the Luftwaffe’s naval operations during World War II. The first volume took the story up to 1942, and by the end of that year Hermann Göring’s Reich Air Ministry had subsumed nearly every aspect of Wehrmacht maritime aviation. Kriegsmarine attempts to develop an independent Fleet Air Arm had ...

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Otto Kretschmer
The Life of Germany's Highest Scoring U-boat Commander
By Lawrence Paterson
Otto Kretschmer was only in combat from September 1939 until March 1941 but was Germany's highest-scoring U-boat commander, sinking 47 ships totaling 274,333 tons. This definitive work details his personal story and the political backdrop from his earliest days.

After completing his officer training and time on the training ship Niobe he served aboard the light cruiser Emden. In December ...

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The Baltimore Sabotage Cell
German Agents, American Traitors, and the U-boat Deutschland During World War I
By Dwight R. Messimer
By the summer of 1915 Germany was faced with two major problems in fighting World War I: how to break the British blockade and how to stop or seriously disrupt the British supply line across the Atlantic. Th e solution to the former was to find a way over, through, or under it. Aircraft in those days were too primitive ...
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Captain Kilburnie
By William P. Mack

After publishing six successful novels about the surface engagements of World War II, including the now classic South to Java (coauthored with his son), William Mack turns his attention and considerable talent to the adventure and romance of the Age of Sail. This enchanting story charts the glorious rise through the ranks of Nelson's navy by Fergus Kilburnie, one of ...

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Hitler's Forgotten Flotillas
Kriegsmarine Security Forces
By Lawrence Paterson
This study of the Kriegsmarine’s Sicherungsstreitkräfte, their security forces, fills a gap in the study of the German navy in World War II. This book describes the wide array of vessels including patrol boats, minesweepers, submarine hunters, barrage breakers, landing craft, minelayers, and even the riverine flotilla that patrolled the Danube as it snaked towards the Black Sea. These vessels ...
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Eagles Over the Sea, 1935�42
The History of Luftwaffe Maritime Operations
By Lawrence Paterson
The arduous development of a dedicated naval air arm for Germany’s resurgent military was fraught with the kind of fierce inter-service rivalry that was rife throughout the turbulent history of the Third Reich. However, almost despite the odds, a small dedicated maritime strike force was assembled, germinating during the Spanish Civil War before being committed to action from the first ...
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Schnellboote
A Complete Operational History
By Lawrence Paterson
The Kriegsmarine’s Schnellboote—fast attack boats or E-boats to the Allies—were the primary German naval attack units in coastal waters throughout the Second World War. Operating close to their various bases they became a devastatingly effective weapon in nearly all the Kriegsmarine’s theaters of war, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. It was in the English Channel ...
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