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Battleground Atlantic: How the Sinking of a Single Japanese Submarine Assured the Outcome of WW II by Richard N Billings Publisher Comments In June, 1944, U.S. Navy warplanes sank a Japanese submarine called the I-52 in the Atlantic, an event of enormous strategic importance. For the I-52 was to return to Japan with the lethal ingredients of a doomsday weapon-the radiological bomb-which... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Iron Coffins: A Personal Account of the German U-Boat Battles of World War II (Da Capo Press) by Herbert A Werner Publisher Comments The Battle of the Atlantic was one of the most savage and strategically significant campaigns of World War II: 28,000 out of 39,000 men in the German U-boat force disappeared beneath the waves. Herbert A. Werner, one of the few surviving German U-boat... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Attack & Sink: The Battle of the Atlantic: Summer 1941 by Bernard Edwards Publisher Comments This convoy must not get through--U-boats pursue, attack and sink. This was the signal that Admiral Dnitz sent to the commanders of the 21 U-boats of the Markgraf wolf-pack on September 9, 1941 just before the United States entered the war. Sixty-three... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longest Battle of World War II by Richard Snow Publisher Comments Of all the threats that faced his country in World War II, Winston Churchill said, just one really scared him—what he called the "measureless peril" of the German U-boat campaign. In that global conflagration, only one battle—the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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X-Craft Versus Tirpitz: The Mystery of the Missing X5: The Mystery of the Missing X5 by Alf Jacobsen Publisher Comments Norwegian investigative journalist Alf Jacobsen relates one of the most incredible tales of the Second World War, in which Royal Navy X-craft midget submarines attacked the German battleship Tirpitz in Norway. A daring plan was hatched by the Admiralty... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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Tirpitz: The Life and Death of Germany's Last Super Battleship by Niklas Zetterling Publisher Comments The story of the battleship Tirpitz-Bismarck's sister ship-and the desperate Allied efforts to destroy it . . .After the Royal Navy's bloody high seas campaign to kill the mighty Bismarck, the Allies were left with an uncomfortable truth-the German... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Bitter Ocean: The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945 by David Fairbank White Publisher Comments An authoritative chronicle of the lesser-known World War II Battle of the Atlantic documents the costly battles fought by U.S., Canadian, British, and German forces for control over the Atlantic sea lanes, in an account that draws on archival research... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Royal Navy and the Battle of Britain by Cumming Anthony J. Synopsis This persuasive study attacks the key myths surrounding the Battle of Britain to revise the relative status of maritime and aviation factors in the defense of Britain. Without denigrating the heroism of the fighter pilots, Anthony Cumming challenges the... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
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Convoy: The Greatest U-Boat Battle of the War (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Martin Middlebrook Publisher Comments Martin Middlebrook has written some of the greatest classics in military history, covering major turning points in the two World Wars. Here, using extensive primary research, he follows the Battle of the Atlantic from the perspective of two convoys... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Shetland Bus by David Howarth Publisher Comments The occupation of Western Europe and Scandinavia in the spring of 1940 crippled Britain's ability to gather intelligence information. After the Germans invaded Norway, many Norwegians knew that small boats were constantly sailing from the Shetland... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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73 North: The Battle of the Barents Sea by Dudley Pope Publisher Comments The events and decisions that culminated in the Battle of the Barents Sea—what many consider to be the most important naval engagement of World War II's European theatre—in which eight of the German navy's most powerful ships failed to sink a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Attack & Sink: The Battle of the Atlantic Summer 1941 by Bernard Edwards Publisher Comments This convoy must not get through--U-boats pursue, attack and sink. This was the signal that Admiral Dnitz sent to the commanders of the 21 U-boats of the Markgraf wolf-pack on September 9, 1941 just before the United States entered the war. Sixty-three... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Imperial War Museum Book of the War at Sea by Julian Thompson Publisher Comments The story of the six years of sea warfare during WWII, as seen by British sailors, from ordinary sailors to admirals, in their memoirs, diaries, letters and taped interviews. 100+ b/w photos, 20 colour illus.... (read more) Your price: $7.75 Used - Trade Paper
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The Second World War (3) the War at Sea (Essential Histories) by Philip D Grove Publisher Comments This volume provides a comprehensive guide to three major theatres of combat; the battles for the Atlantic, the war in the Mediterranean and the contest in the Indian Ocean. The war at sea was a vital contest, which if lost would have irreversibly... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Flag: The Surrender of Germany's U-Boat Forces by Lawrence Paterson Publisher Comments On the eve of Germany's surrender in May 1945, Grossadmiral Karl Dönitz commanded thousands of loyal and active men of the U-boat service. Still fully armed and unbroken in morale, enclaves of these men occupied bases stretching from Norway to... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Stalin's silver :the sinking of the USS John Barry by John Beasant Publisher Comments August 28, 1944, off the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea: three torpedoes fired by German submariners aboard U-859 ram an American merchant ship, the USS John Barry. The 7200-ton surface vessel caries Saudi silver riyals worth $80 million, and another... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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No Greater Glory by Dan Kurzman Publisher Comments The sinking of the Dorchester in the icy waters off Greenland shortly after midnight on February 3, 1942, was one of the worst sea disasters of World War II. It was also the occasion of an astounding feat of heroism—and faith. As water gushed... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Great Naval Battles #1: Hunt the Bismarck by Angus Konstam Publisher Comments Introducing a great new series of top quality, yet affordable books on naval battles and campaigns. Heavily illustrated, each volume provides lively accounts of the action and authoritative analyses of their context and the forces involved, including the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Neptunus Rex: Naval Stories of the Normandy Invasion, June 6, 1944: Voices of the Navy Memorial by Edward Prados Publisher Comments The most important yet the least studied aspect of the Normandy invasion is the naval portion of Overlord: Operation Neptune. Without the transport provided by Neptune, no soldiers would have stormed the beaches on June 6th, breaching the walls of Hitler'... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Battleground Atlantic: How the Sinking of a Single Japanese Submarine Assured the Outcome of World War II by Richard N. Billings Publisher Comments A chronicle of a little-known event of World War II provides an in-depth account of the June 1944 sinking by U.S. Navy warplanes of a Japanese submarine, a ship carrying the ingredients of a radiological bomb, purchased from the Germans, that had been... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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