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Titanic and Other Ships
by - Lightoller, Charles Herbert
1935, Ivor Nicholson & Watson
Hardcover, 344 pages
book is in English language
This book details the wildly adventurous career of Titanic officer Charles Herbert Lightoller. After surviving the Titanic disaster, Lightoller went on to command a torpedo boat in the Nore Defence Flotilla, and two destroyers of the Dover Patrol. A first-hand account, giving a vivid picture of how the "gentlemen of the other firm" felt towards the U-boats. Lightoller sank Werner Fürbringer's UB-110, and it is interesting to compare his account of their encounter with the one in Fips.
The hardcover edition is a rarity, there is also a paperback edition, published by Bay Tree Press, which is more readily obtained. There is a hypertext at http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301011h.html
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Warships & Sea Battles of World War I
by - Fitzsimons, Bernard (editor)
1973, Phoebus, London
ISBN 0702600040
Hardcover, 160 pages, numerous photos, maps and drawings book is in English language
This book presents a comprehensive account of the First World War at sea, and of the ships that fought that war.
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Baltic Assignment
by - Wilson, Michael
British Submariners in Russia: 1914-1919
1985, Leo Cooper, London
ISBN 0436578018
Hardcover, 244 pages, 23 photos, 5 maps book is in English language
This is the story of Max Horton, Noel Laurence and Francis Cromie, together with their gallant crews and those other submariners who fought for their country, and for Russia, in the Baltic during the period from 1914 to 1918, and then on into 1919.
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The Commerce War
by - Taylor, Carl T.
Unarmed Merchant Ships against German Submarines in World War I
1999, Mountain Empire Publications, Clifton Forge, VA, USA
ISBN 0966470915
Paperback, 104 pages book is in English language
Thie book is fiction, but many incidents are basically true. It should be accurate historically.
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WW I - Marinekorps Flandern
by - Ryheul, Johan
German Naval Air Service at the Western Front 1914-1918
2002, Regulus One Publishing
ISBN 9080745219
Stapled, 60 pages, 115 photos book is in English language
7 pages of history of all 24 units and exclusive photos such as of the attack of seaplanes on the British C25 submarine.
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World War One - Marinekorps Flandern
by - Ryheul, Johan
U-Flottille Flandern I and II
2002, Regulus One Publishing
ISBN 90807452111
Photobook, stapled, 80 pages, 149 photos book is in English language
7 pages of history on the U-Flottille Flandern I and II and the harbours of Brugge, Zeebrugge and Oostende.
Photos of these harbours, the submarines that operated from these harbours, the British raid on St. George's Day 1918 and action photos at sea such as ships being hit by a torpedo, sinking, crews asking for help,...
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The Kaiser's Pirates
by - Walter, John
German Surface Raiders in World War One
1994, United States Naval Inst.
ISBN 1557504563
Hardcover, 192 pages, numerous b&w photos and maps book is in English language
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Verschollen
by - Messimer, Dwight R.
World War I U-Boat Losses
2002, United States Naval Inst.
ISBN 155750475X
Hardcover, 341 pages, numerous b&w photos and maps book is in English language
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The Zeebrugge and Ostend Raids 1918
by - Lake, Deborah
2002, Leo Cooper/ Pen and Sword Books
ISBN 0850528704
Hardcover, 208 pages, 2 maps, 33 photos book is in English language
This book covers the naval war between the units of the German Marinekorps Flandern and the British Navy in 1917-1918 in the North Sea and Channel, and especially the danger of the German U-boats operating from the Belgian ports. It looks at the story from both sides, which makes it rather unique; shows the importance of politics in the British Navy (especially to get the Dover command); and most of all shows that the raids on St. George's Day 1918, made in an attempt to block the harbours of Zeebrugge and Oostende, were not the success they are always made out to be in British history books.
Coverage is very complete. The part providing the German point of view was reviewed in its entirety by Johan Ryheul, author of Marinekorps Flandern.
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Royal Naval Air Service 1912-1918
by - King, Bradley
1997, Hikoki Publications, Aldershot
ISBN 0951989952
Hardcover, 160 pages, photos book is in English language
The story of the Royal Naval Air Service previous to World War I and during the war, from Oostende to the Dardanelles, Africa, the Mediterranean, to Gallipoli, Romania and Russia.
Also covers the war versus Zeppelins and the war versus German ships and U-boats.
Almost a pictorial as there are an enormous amount of never-before-published photos in it.
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Naval Memoirs 1916-1918
by - Keyes, Sir Roger
Scapa Flow to the Dover Straits
1935, Thornton Butterworth, London
Hardcover, 416 pages, 16 maps and drawings, 13 photos book is in English language
This is a portion of the naval memoirs of this admiral, almost a song of praise for himself. However it also gives a very good overview of the anti-submarine activities in the Channel for which he was responsible as he held command of the Dover Patrol.
Of course the Zeebrugge and Oostende raids by his men in 1918 on St.-George's Day were enormous successes and both harbours were completely blocked if you want to believe the man. The reality was somewhat different.
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The Glory of Zeebrugge
by - Keble, Howard
1918, Chatto and Windus - London
64 pages, 16 photos, 1 map book is in English language
The official narratives on the Zeebrugge and Oostende raids by the British on St. George's Day, 1918 in an attempt to block both these German-occupied harbours. The book was pure propaganda and is even still today on a secret list of propaganda books at the Imperial War Museum in London.
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By Guess and By God
by - Carr, William Guy
The Story of the British Submarines in the War
1930, Hutchinson & Co., London
Hardcover, 288 pages, 9 photos book is in English language
A real bestseller from this period of time which covers almost the complete submarine war from the British side in World War I. It reads like a novel but is not always completely accurate. Preface written by Admiral S.S. Hall who commanded the British Submarine Service for the greater part of the war.
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The Dover Patrol 1914-18
by - Humphreys, Roy
1998, Sutton Publishing
ISBN 0750919671
Hardcover - 222 pages book is in English language
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Rules of Encounter
by - Kennedy, William P.
1992, St. Martin's Press, New York
ISBN 031206182X
Hardcover book is in English language
Novel, exposing a conspiracy theory behind the sinking of Lusitania, with Winston Churchill casted as a chief blackhat, conspiring to single out the Irish Fenians, drag US into the war, and defamate the Hun with one throw of a stone - he orders high explosives being loaded aboard the Lusitania, makes the Cunard New York representative lower the ticket prices, so that more Americans would board her, then leaks that info to the Fenians, and through them - to Germany and U-20.
- This book has been translated into other languages
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Jutland 1916
by - London, Charles
Clash of the dreadnoughts
2000, Osprey Pub Co
ISBN 1855329921
Paperback, 96 pages, illustrations book is in English language
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U-Boats of the Kaiser's Navy
by - Williamson, Gordon
2002,
ISBN 1841763624
Paperback, 48 pages book is in English language
From the publisher: "As was the case in World War II, one of the greatest threats to Britain during World War I was the German U-Boat menace. Gordon Williamson traces the development of the U-Boat from the Brandtaucher, designed by Wilhelm Bauer, the father of the German submarine arm, in 1850, through to the commissioning of Germany's first U-Boat to go into service, the U-1, in 1906. All of the main types of World War I U-Boat are then covered. The operational history of the U-Boat service is also covered in some depth. Included are details of the campaigns in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, along with the slow build-up of anti-submarine measures by the allies."
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