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Re: good books on WW1 U boats
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MPC
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Date: August 01, 2008 11:11AM
Hi Dave,
Following are from a list I sent to a German Ubootkammeradschaft site a few years ago.
1. Weltkrieg - Deutsch
WW I - German
Die Fahrt der Deutschland - Kptlt.d.R. Paul Koenig
About the Untersee-Frachtschiff SMU Deutschland and her visit(s) to the USA before she was armed and renamed SMU
Unser Recht auf den U-Bootkrieg - K.Adm Karl Hollweg
Justification of the German U-Boat war (1917)
300,000 Tonnen Versenkt - Meine U-Boots-Fahrten - Kptlt Max Valentiner
Kreuzerfahrten und U-Bootstaten - Otto v. Gottberg
Early months of 1st World War at sea
Wir an den Machinen -F.Kapt(Ing) Wilhelm Reinhard
A lot of information on SMU-Boats
Die Maenner von U 96 - Karl Wiebicke
Story of U 96 (Kptlt Heinrich Jess) by a crew member (WO ?)
UBoote am Feind - Werner v. Langsdorff
U-Boat stories of World War 1
U 38 - Wikingerfahrten eines deutschen U-Bootes - Kapt.z.S. Max Valentiner, SMU 38 (autobiography)
Alarm! Tauchen!! - UBoote im Kampf und Sturm -
Kptlt a.D. Werner Fuerbringer (Cdr of 7 SMUB boats)
(autobiography)
Kapitaenleutnant Otto Steinbrinck - Bodo Herzog
Die Geschichte des erfolgreichsten U-Boot-Kommandant in der Gewaessern um England
Der See-Krieg - Kapt.z.S L.Persius
includes early photos and information on U-Boats (c.1915)
Der Bau von Unterseebooten auf der Germaniawerft - H. Techel
Technical publication about Germaniawerft U-Boats in WW1
Vom U-Boote zur Kanzel - Oblt.z.See Martin Niemoeller
Autobiography of a WW1 U-Boat commander who became a pastor and was a personal political prisoner of Hitler for seven years
Die Verluste der Kriegsflotten 1914-1918 - Jacob Rehder
Neu erbabeitet und erweitert von Helmut Sander
Warship losses (all causes) listed by country
K. und K. Korvettenkapitaen George Ritter von Trapp
Der erfolgreichste U-Boot-Kommandanten Oesterreich-Ungarns im Ersten Weltkrieg
Guenter Schoemaekers Boigraphy of the most successful U-Boat commander in the Austro-Hungarian Navy
Ehrenrangliste der Kaiserliche Deutschen Marine 1914-1918 - Konteradmiral a.D. Stoelzel Berlin 1930
Complete list (if it's not it's not far short) of German Naval officers in the Great War. Gives early career details of German naval officers who served in the 2nd World War - eg Doenitz Godt etc (1888 pages - extremely rare)
1. Weltkrieg - Englisch
WW I - English
The Diary of a U-Boat Commander - Anon
Introduction and explanatory notes by Etienne London Hutchinson & Co 1920 (Would be really interested to know who this U-Boat Commander was)
U-Boat 202 - Kptlt Freiherr von Spiegel
(Komdt SMU 32 & SMU 93) Autobiography
Raiders of the Deep - Lowell Thomas
A collection of tales of daring-do by some early U-Boat commanders
Well written and worth having in the library as it was recently reprinted in the US and available still (I believe) in England
The Log of a U-Boat Commander - Kptlt Ernst Hashagen
Autobiography of the commander of SMU 62
U-Boat Stories - Narratives of German U-Boat Sailors
Edited by Kptlt Karl Neureuther (SMUB 24 & others) and Claus Bergen,
a brilliant German War Artist
The German Submarine War 1914-1918 - R.H.Gibson & Maurice Prendergast
A truely excellent work on the U-boats of the Great War. A book by which others should be measured. THIS SHOULD BE REPRINTED
British Merchant Ships Sunk by U-Boats in the 1914-1918 War - A.J. Tennant
A private publication (It does not include ships under 500 tons, fishing vessels & sailing ships) (I was in contact with the author a few years ago but dont know if he has any copies left)
U-Boats Destroyed
U-Boat Intelligence 1914-1918
Both by Robert M. Grant
Both worth reading
Slaughter at Sea - The Truth Behind a Naval War Crime - Alan Coles
The murder, by the British, of Kptlt Bernd Wegener (SMU27) and some of his men whilst helpless in the water. (The Public Record Office files on this subject were closed for 50 years but as far as I know it is now 100 years)
Last Days of the German Fleet - Ludwig Freiwald
Includes the German mutiny in Kiel and gives some information of the part played by the U-Boat men in helping to quell it
German Warships of World War 1 - Introduction by Norman Friedland
The Royal Navy's Official Guide to the Capital Ships, Cruisers, Destroyers, Submarines and Small Craft 1914-1918
German Warships 1815-1945 - (Erich Groener)
Revised and expanded by Dieter Jung & Martin Maass
Submarines and the War at Sea 1914-1918 - Commander Richard Compton-Hall RN
(Former commander of HMS/M's & later director of the Submarine Museum, Gosport)
Hope they are of some interest,
Regards
MPC
Following are from a list I sent to a German Ubootkammeradschaft site a few years ago.
1. Weltkrieg - Deutsch
WW I - German
Die Fahrt der Deutschland - Kptlt.d.R. Paul Koenig
About the Untersee-Frachtschiff SMU Deutschland and her visit(s) to the USA before she was armed and renamed SMU
Unser Recht auf den U-Bootkrieg - K.Adm Karl Hollweg
Justification of the German U-Boat war (1917)
300,000 Tonnen Versenkt - Meine U-Boots-Fahrten - Kptlt Max Valentiner
Kreuzerfahrten und U-Bootstaten - Otto v. Gottberg
Early months of 1st World War at sea
Wir an den Machinen -F.Kapt(Ing) Wilhelm Reinhard
A lot of information on SMU-Boats
Die Maenner von U 96 - Karl Wiebicke
Story of U 96 (Kptlt Heinrich Jess) by a crew member (WO ?)
UBoote am Feind - Werner v. Langsdorff
U-Boat stories of World War 1
U 38 - Wikingerfahrten eines deutschen U-Bootes - Kapt.z.S. Max Valentiner, SMU 38 (autobiography)
Alarm! Tauchen!! - UBoote im Kampf und Sturm -
Kptlt a.D. Werner Fuerbringer (Cdr of 7 SMUB boats)
(autobiography)
Kapitaenleutnant Otto Steinbrinck - Bodo Herzog
Die Geschichte des erfolgreichsten U-Boot-Kommandant in der Gewaessern um England
Der See-Krieg - Kapt.z.S L.Persius
includes early photos and information on U-Boats (c.1915)
Der Bau von Unterseebooten auf der Germaniawerft - H. Techel
Technical publication about Germaniawerft U-Boats in WW1
Vom U-Boote zur Kanzel - Oblt.z.See Martin Niemoeller
Autobiography of a WW1 U-Boat commander who became a pastor and was a personal political prisoner of Hitler for seven years
Die Verluste der Kriegsflotten 1914-1918 - Jacob Rehder
Neu erbabeitet und erweitert von Helmut Sander
Warship losses (all causes) listed by country
K. und K. Korvettenkapitaen George Ritter von Trapp
Der erfolgreichste U-Boot-Kommandanten Oesterreich-Ungarns im Ersten Weltkrieg
Guenter Schoemaekers Boigraphy of the most successful U-Boat commander in the Austro-Hungarian Navy
Ehrenrangliste der Kaiserliche Deutschen Marine 1914-1918 - Konteradmiral a.D. Stoelzel Berlin 1930
Complete list (if it's not it's not far short) of German Naval officers in the Great War. Gives early career details of German naval officers who served in the 2nd World War - eg Doenitz Godt etc (1888 pages - extremely rare)
1. Weltkrieg - Englisch
WW I - English
The Diary of a U-Boat Commander - Anon
Introduction and explanatory notes by Etienne London Hutchinson & Co 1920 (Would be really interested to know who this U-Boat Commander was)
U-Boat 202 - Kptlt Freiherr von Spiegel
(Komdt SMU 32 & SMU 93) Autobiography
Raiders of the Deep - Lowell Thomas
A collection of tales of daring-do by some early U-Boat commanders
Well written and worth having in the library as it was recently reprinted in the US and available still (I believe) in England
The Log of a U-Boat Commander - Kptlt Ernst Hashagen
Autobiography of the commander of SMU 62
U-Boat Stories - Narratives of German U-Boat Sailors
Edited by Kptlt Karl Neureuther (SMUB 24 & others) and Claus Bergen,
a brilliant German War Artist
The German Submarine War 1914-1918 - R.H.Gibson & Maurice Prendergast
A truely excellent work on the U-boats of the Great War. A book by which others should be measured. THIS SHOULD BE REPRINTED
British Merchant Ships Sunk by U-Boats in the 1914-1918 War - A.J. Tennant
A private publication (It does not include ships under 500 tons, fishing vessels & sailing ships) (I was in contact with the author a few years ago but dont know if he has any copies left)
U-Boats Destroyed
U-Boat Intelligence 1914-1918
Both by Robert M. Grant
Both worth reading
Slaughter at Sea - The Truth Behind a Naval War Crime - Alan Coles
The murder, by the British, of Kptlt Bernd Wegener (SMU27) and some of his men whilst helpless in the water. (The Public Record Office files on this subject were closed for 50 years but as far as I know it is now 100 years)
Last Days of the German Fleet - Ludwig Freiwald
Includes the German mutiny in Kiel and gives some information of the part played by the U-Boat men in helping to quell it
German Warships of World War 1 - Introduction by Norman Friedland
The Royal Navy's Official Guide to the Capital Ships, Cruisers, Destroyers, Submarines and Small Craft 1914-1918
German Warships 1815-1945 - (Erich Groener)
Revised and expanded by Dieter Jung & Martin Maass
Submarines and the War at Sea 1914-1918 - Commander Richard Compton-Hall RN
(Former commander of HMS/M's & later director of the Submarine Museum, Gosport)
Hope they are of some interest,
Regards
MPC
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