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Find and Destroy: Antisubmarine Warfare in World War I Hardcover – January 1, 2001

by Dwight R. Messimer (Author)
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World War I was the crucible of antisubmarine warfare (ASW), and the years of trial and error between 1914 and 1918 gave rise to the weapons and tactics used by today's ASW forces. With this study, military historian Dwight Messimer examines the weapons, tactics, and organization used by all the belligerents during the war and provides some surprising findings. Because he draws heavily from personal accounts as well as from official records, his book will appeal to both serious readers seeking hard facts and to general readers who like stories about war at sea.

Messimer tells the story from both sides. German survivors who escaped from sunken U-boats explain what it was like to face the newly developed ASW weapons beneath the surface, and pilots tell what it was like from above. The author describes the German's well-organized and efficient ASW organization in the Baltic and the Helgoland Bight. He also discusses the weapons developed during the war that proved to be largely ineffective or outright failures. While his evaluations of the contributions made by aircraft and Q-ships put them in the category of only marginally effective, his analysis of the effectiveness of politics deems that ASW "weapon" the most effective of all. Solidly grounded in the best primary sources available in England, the United States, and Germany, this book is the first to address the ASW of all World War I belligerents.

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    Naval Inst Pr
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    January 1, 2001
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  6. ISBN-10
    1557504474
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1557504470
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Dwight R. Messimer, a lecturer at San Jose State University and resident of Mountain View, California, is the author of six books published by the Naval Institute, including Escape about a World War I Medal of Honor recipient.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Naval Inst Pr (January 1, 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 298 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1557504474
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1557504470
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.4 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1.25 x 9 inches
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I taught American History, Military History, and Historical Writing at San Jose State University from 1988 to 2002. I am a trained military historian, not a journalist or a history buff. I am fluent and literate in German. My subject area is largely WWI, POW escapes, anti-submarine warfare (ASW), and German U-Boat operations. I have also written books on naval and Army aviation covering the period 1925-1942. My work has also appeared in The American Neptune (German Gunboats in China), The Quarterly Journal of Military History (German U-Boats), and Naval History (German Gunboats in China, 1898-1914), and in several anthologies. I also wrote the foreword to Gaylord Kelshall’s, The U-Boat War in the Caribbean. and the Naval Institute’s Classics of Naval Literature title, Voyage of the Deutschland. In January 2020 my latest book will be released by the University of Nebraska Press, An Incipient Mutiny:The story of the U.S. Army Signal Corps Pilot Revolt.

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Paul-FC
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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Bayard B.
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting book on what today must be regarded as primitive anti-submarine efforts.
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2019
The book gives a thorough description of the anti-submarine weaponry and tactics of the WW I era, primitive though they might have been. Lacking radar and sonar, the only means a surface ship had for detecting a submerged submarine was the hydrophone, which wasn't very accurate at all. Radio intercepts and direction finding could offer a general indication of the location of a surfaced submarine. The most effective weapons or barriers to submarines were mines and nets. The book gives a lot of information on the mine barriers of the Dover Straits, the North Sea Barrage, and the Otranto Barrage. Chapter 27 gives a description of the German anti-submarine efforts in the Baltic and the Heligoland Bight to counter Russian and British submarines.

There are also discussions of the patrol vessels (mostly British), Q-ship decoys, the first extensive uses of aircraft in 1917, and the setting up of Atlantic convoys also in 1917.
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Tony DiGiulian
4.0 out of 5 stars A good, useful study on the subject
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2006
This is an interesting book, not only for the subject matter, but for the way in which it is written. Instead of exciting action stories of steely men at war that one might expect, the author digs past that superficial level to provide detailed information on both the weapons in use and the methods in which they were used.

Each nation's capabilities at the beginning of the war (brief synopsis: Trivial) is assessed, how that changed as the war went on, and what were the success and failures both as seen by the respective country and by its foes. I especially liked how the author, rather than simply parroting an action report from some British or German destroyer, took the time to search out the records and reports from the target submarine. This is repeatedly done throughout the book to illustrate some tactic or weapon, which means that one can now understand not only what the attacking destroyer thought of the attack, but what were the effects on its intended target.

The ASW weapons are given a good examination and again the effectiveness of each nation's weapons is reviewed not only by the users but also by the defenders. For example, the British thought that their use of anti-submarine nets in the channel thoroughly hindered the movements of the German U-Boats. However, the Germans actually found these to be a minor nuisance for most part, easily defeated or simply avoided. Similar insights are given to as the effectiveness of German ASW weapons and tactics.

In summary, this book should be seen as being a definitive study of the subject at the detailed level. It is not a breezy set of action stories strung together to form a "popular" history. For that reason, I give this work a high rating and look forward to more such works from the author.
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