Recent additions

This is a listing of the 30 latest additions to our books databases. Those books may or may not be new releases. Many of those books have been submitted by our readers in the last few days.



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German submarine U-1105 'Black Panther'

by Aaron Stephan Hamilton
The naval archaeology of a U-boat (2019, Osprey Publishing)
ISBN 1472835816
Hardcover, 128 pages
book is in English language
Description: A detailed study of history and marine archaeology of an innovative late-World War II U-boat that currently lies as a wreck in the Potomac River.Now i ...
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Target Corinth Canal 1940–1944

Target Corinth Canal 1940–1944

by Platon Alexiades (2015, Pen and Sword)
ISBN 1473827566
Hardcover, 288 pages
book is in English language
Description: During the Second World War the Corinth Canal assumed an importance disproportionate to its size. It was the focus of numerous special Allied operatio ...
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The Mathews Men

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The Mathews Men

by William Geroux
Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler's U-boats (2017, Penguin Books)
ISBN 014310926X
Paperback, 400 pages
book is in English language
Description: “Vividly drawn and emotionally gripping."—Daniel James Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat. One of the last unhera ...
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False Flags

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False Flags

by Stephen Robinson
Disguised German Raiders of World War II (2016, Exisle Publishing)
ISBN 1925335151
Hardcover, 336 pages
book is in English language
Description: False Flags tells the epic untold story of German raider voyages to the South Seas during the early years of World War II. In 1940 the raiders Orion, ...
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Convoy Will Scatter

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Convoy Will Scatter

by Bernard Edwards
The Full Story of Jervis Bay and Convoy HX84 (2013, Pen and Sword)
ISBN 1781593760
Hardcover, 224 pages
book is in English language
Description: On 5 November 1940 the eastbound convoy HX 84 of thirty-seven merchant ships, escorted by the armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay was attacked in mi ...
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Forgotten Sacrifice

Forgotten Sacrifice

by Michael G. Walling
The Arctic Convoys of World War II (General Military) (2012, Osprey Publishing)
ISBN 1849087180
Hardcover, 292 pages
book is in English language
Description: Hitler called Norway the “Zone of Destiny” for Nazi Germany because convoys from Churchill's Britain and Roosevelt's United States supplied Stalin ...
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Arctic Convoys 1941 - 1945

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Arctic Convoys 1941 - 1945

by Richard Woodman (2007, Casemate Publishers)
ISBN 1844156117
Paperback, 532 pages
book is in English language
Description: During the last four years of the Second World War, the Western Allies secured Russian defenses against Germany by supplying vital food and arms. The ...
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The Decoys

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The Decoys

by Bernard Edwards
A Tale of Three Atlantic Convoys 1942 (2017, Naval Institute Press)
ISBN 1473887089
Hardcover, 224 pages
book is in English language
Description: In November 1942, Britain and America launched Operation TORCH, the ambitious invasion of French North African colonies of Morocco and Algeria. To con ...
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Long Night of the Tankers

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Long Night of the Tankers

by David J. Bercuson
Hitler's War Against Caribbean Oil (Beyond Boundaries: Canadian Defense and) (2014, University of Calgary Press)
ISBN 1552387593
Paperback, 368 pages
book is in English language
Description: Long Night of the Tankers presents a fresh account of a lesser-known but critical component of the Atlantic naval theatre during World War II. Using w ...
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Imprisoned in the Caribbean

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Imprisoned in the Caribbean

by Ligia T. Domenech
The 1942 German U-boat Blockade (2014, iUniverse)
ISBN 149175270X
Paperback, 224 pages
book is in English language
Description: Winston Churchill recognized in his memoirs: "The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril" His fears would be re ...
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Execution for Duty

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Execution for Duty

by Peter C. Hansen
The Life, Trial and Murder of a U boat Captain (2006, Pen and Sword)
ISBN 1844153223
Hardcover, 256 pages
book is in English language
Description: Oskar Heinz Kusch, joined the German Navy in 1937. He worked his way successfully through naval college and eventually volunteered for duty in U boats ...
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Smoke and Mirrors

Smoke and Mirrors

by Deborah Lake
Q-Ships against the U-Boats in the First World War (2009, The History Press)
ISBN 0752450557
Paperback, 256 pages
book is in English language
Description: The Q-ship, an ordinary merchant vessel with concealed guns, came into its own during World War I, when used by the Royal Navy to trap and destroy Ge ...
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Donitz's Last Gamble

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Donitz's Last Gamble

by Lawrence Patterson
The Inshore U-Boat Campaign 1944-45 (2008, Seaforth Publishing)
ISBN 1844157148
Hardcover, 208 pages
book is in English language
Description: By the end of 1943 the German submarine war on Atlantic convoys was all but defeated, beaten by superior technology, code-breaking and air power. With ...
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The Cruel Sea Retold

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The Cruel Sea Retold

by Bernard Edwards
The Truth Behind Monsarrat's Epic Convoy Drama (2009, Naval Institute Press)
ISBN 1591141451
Hardcover, 224 pages
book is in English language
Description: Bernard Edwards recounts the history that Nicholas Monsarrat used as the basis of his famous adventure novel, The Cruel Sea, which tells the tale of B ...
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The Victory at Sea

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The Victory at Sea

by W. S. Sims
the Allied Campaign Against U-Boats During the First World War 1917-18 (2012, LEONAUR)
ISBN 1782820426
Hardcover, 340 pages
book is in English language
Description: Victory snatched from imminent defeat This book by the American, Admiral Sims will be a revelation to many. The British public had no idea that by the ...
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Blackett's War

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Blackett's War

by Stephen Budiansky
The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare Warfare (2013, Vintage)
ISBN 0307743632
Paperback, 348 pages
book is in English language
Description: A Washington Post Notable BookIn March 1941, after a year of devastating U-boat attacks, the British War Cabinet turned to an intensely private, bohem ...
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U-Boats of the Second World War

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U-Boats of the Second World War

by Jak P Mallmann Showell
Their Longest Voyages (2014, Fonthill Media)
ISBN 1781551022
Hardcover, 192 pages
book is in English language
Description: This is a gripping account, based on previously unpublished diaries and crew accounts, of life on German U-boats during the Second World War. It descr ...
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Swastikas in the Arctic

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Swastikas in the Arctic

by Jak P Mallmann Showell
U-boat Alley through the Frozen Hell (2014, Fonthill Media)
ISBN 1781552924
Hardcover, 240 pages
book is in English language
Description: During the Second World War, the Arctic saw an unusually high intensity of action, adventure, excitement and tragedy, and Swastikas in the Arctic: U-b ...
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The Baltimore Sabotage Cell

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The Baltimore Sabotage Cell

by Dwight R. Messimer
German Agents, American Traitors, and the U-boat Deutschland During World War I (2015, Naval Institute Press)
ISBN 1591141842
Hardcover, 280 pages
book is in English language
Description: 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 seriousl ...
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Trap the U-Boats!

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Trap the U-Boats!

by Alfred F. B. Carpenter
The Zeebrugge Raid April 23rd 1918 by Alfred F. B. Carpenter & The Zeebrugge Raid a Short Account by Arthur H. Pollen (2015, LEONAUR)
ISBN 1782824677
Hardcover, 244 pages
book is in English language
Description: A desperate raid to save the merchant ships that supplied the Allied cause From the first months of 1915, when the Great War on the Western Front gro ...
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War Beneath the Waves

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War Beneath the Waves

by Tomas Termote
U-Boat Flotilla Flandern (2017, Uniform Press)
ISBN 191050064X
Hardcover, 352 pages
book is in English language
Description: Amid the stalemate of World War I, one area in which the German military could claim almost complete supremacy was beneath the ocean. In the four year ...
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Hitler's Gray Wolves

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Hitler's Gray Wolves

by Lawrence Paterson
U-Boats in the Indian Ocean (2017, Carrel Books)
ISBN 1510717765
Hardcover, 288 pages
book is in English language
Description: Next to nothing has been written about the U-boat war in the Indian Ocean. This is the story of a forgotten campaign. The battle began in August 1943, ...
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Hitler's Forgotten Flotillas

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Hitler's Forgotten Flotillas

by Lawrence Paterson
Kriegsmarine Security Forces (2017, Naval Institute Press)
ISBN 1473882397
Hardcover, 336 pages
book is in English language
Description: 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 b ...
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Shadow over the Atlantic

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Shadow over the Atlantic

by Robert Forsyth
The Luftwaffe and the U-boats: 1943–45 (2017, Osprey Publishing)
ISBN 1472820452
Hardcover, 312 pages
book is in English language
Description: German U-boats were the scourge of Allied merchant and military shipping in the Atlantic during World War II, threatening to isolate and then starve t ...
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U-boat 977

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U-boat 977

by Heinz Schaeffer
The Third Reich U-boat That Escaped to Argentina (2017, Naval Institute Press)
ISBN 1784382493
Hardcover, 224 pages
book is in English language
Description: This is the story of U-977, the German submarine that escaped to Argentina at the end of World War II. Before surfacing near the west coast of Africa, ...
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Hitler's 'Wonder' U-Boats

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Hitler's 'Wonder' U-Boats

by Jak P Mallmann Showell
The Birth of the Cold War's Hunter-Killer Submarines (2018, Naval Institute Press)
ISBN 1526724804
Hardcover, 312 pages
book is in English language
Description: Launched during the last days of the Third Reich in an attempt to restart the Battle of the Atlantic, the majority of these revolutionary Electro-U-bo ...
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U-188

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U-188

by Klaus Willmann
A German Submariner’s Account of the War at Sea 1941-1945 (2015, Frontline Books)
ISBN 1848327609
Hardcover, 240 pages
book is in English language
Description: Anton Staller was a U-boat lookout, rising no higher than Leading Seaman and his account of the war from the lower ranks is unique. He served on the T ...
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Otto Kretschmer

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Otto Kretschmer

by Lawrence Patterson
The Life of Germany's Highest Scoring U-boat Commander (2018, Naval Institute Press)
ISBN 1784381926
Hardcover, 288 pages
book is in English language
Description: 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 2 ...
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The Battles of Coronel and the Falklands, 1914

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The Battles of Coronel and the Falklands, 1914

by Geoffrey Bennett (2014, Pen and Sword)
ISBN 1783462795
Paperback, 192 pages
book is in English language
Description: The defeat that Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock suffered at Coronel in 1914 at the hands of Maximilian Graf von Spee, one of Germany’s most bri ...
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HMS Rodney

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HMS Rodney

by Iain Ballantyne
Slayer of the Bismarck and D-Day Saviour (Warships of the Royal Navy) (2012, Pen and Sword)
ISBN 1848848706
Paperback, 320 pages
book is in English language
Description: The Second World War battleship HMS Rodney achieved lasting fame for her role in destroying the pride of Hitler’s navy, the mighty Bismarck in a thr ...
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