Author: Ralph Barker
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Story of the destruction of the SS City of Cairo. While en route to Recife, Brazil, it was torpedoed by the German U-boat, U-68 in 1942.
Goodnight, Sorry for Sinking You
Author: Ralph Barker
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Story of the destruction of the SS City of Cairo. While en route to Recife, Brazil, it was torpedoed by the German U-boat, U-68 in 1942.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Story of the destruction of the SS City of Cairo. While en route to Recife, Brazil, it was torpedoed by the German U-boat, U-68 in 1942.
Ninety Percent of Everything
Author: Rose George
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805092633
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Revealing the workings and dangers of freight shipping, the author sails from Rotterdam to Suez to Singapore to present an eye-opening glimpse into an overlooked world filled with suspect practices, dubious operators, and pirates.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805092633
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Revealing the workings and dangers of freight shipping, the author sails from Rotterdam to Suez to Singapore to present an eye-opening glimpse into an overlooked world filled with suspect practices, dubious operators, and pirates.
The Sinking of the Laconia and the U-Boat War
Author: James P. Duffy
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803245408
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Originally published: Santa Barbara, California: Praeger/ABC-CLIO, 2009.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803245408
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Originally published: Santa Barbara, California: Praeger/ABC-CLIO, 2009.
The Sense of an Ending
Author: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307957330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307957330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
Death in the Doldrums
Author: Bernard Edwards
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1781596190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
With their very long range, the giant Type IX U-Cruisers gave Admiral Dnitz's U-boat fleet global reach. Initially these boats operated with considerable success off the East coast of America and in the Caribbean but their main impact was in the Gulf of Guinea 1942-43 which, due to the closure of the Suez Canal, was a vital Allied supply route. Two submarines in particular (U-68 and U-505) had a profound effect causing major panic by their hugely successful operations.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1781596190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
With their very long range, the giant Type IX U-Cruisers gave Admiral Dnitz's U-boat fleet global reach. Initially these boats operated with considerable success off the East coast of America and in the Caribbean but their main impact was in the Gulf of Guinea 1942-43 which, due to the closure of the Suez Canal, was a vital Allied supply route. Two submarines in particular (U-68 and U-505) had a profound effect causing major panic by their hugely successful operations.
Silent Hunters
Author: Theodore P. Savas
Publisher: Savas Publishing
ISBN: 1940669006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The compelling true stories of six little-known U-boat commanders and their dramatic WWII careers. When World War II erupted across Europe in 1939, Germany knew it couldn’t hope to compete with the Royal Navy in a head-to-head naval war. Left with no viable alternatives, the U-Bootwaffe wagered everything on the submarine in a desperate attempt to sink more tonnage than the Allies could construct. Some of these “silent hunters” who slipped out of their shelters along Europe's shores to stalk their prey have enjoyed considerable recognition in the years since. While most aspects of the bitter struggle have been told and retold from both the Axis and Allied points of view, the careers of some highly effective U-boat commanders have languished in undeserved obscurity. The profiles of six such commanders are presented in this collection of essays. They include Englebert Endrass, whose spectacular career before being lost off the coast of Gibraltar is described here by his best friend and fellow ace Enrich Topp, who wrote this while on his fifteenth War Patrol; Karl-Friedrich Merten, who was ranked among the war’s top tonnage aces; Ralph Kapitsky, whose U-615 suicidal surface-to-air battle in the Caribbean allowed many of his fellow submariners to escape into the Atlantic; Fritz Guggenberger, who sank an aircraft carrier and organized the biggest POW escape attempt in American history; Victor Oehrn, a former staff officer of Karl Dönitz's; and Heinz Eck, who was executed by the British. Includes photographs
Publisher: Savas Publishing
ISBN: 1940669006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The compelling true stories of six little-known U-boat commanders and their dramatic WWII careers. When World War II erupted across Europe in 1939, Germany knew it couldn’t hope to compete with the Royal Navy in a head-to-head naval war. Left with no viable alternatives, the U-Bootwaffe wagered everything on the submarine in a desperate attempt to sink more tonnage than the Allies could construct. Some of these “silent hunters” who slipped out of their shelters along Europe's shores to stalk their prey have enjoyed considerable recognition in the years since. While most aspects of the bitter struggle have been told and retold from both the Axis and Allied points of view, the careers of some highly effective U-boat commanders have languished in undeserved obscurity. The profiles of six such commanders are presented in this collection of essays. They include Englebert Endrass, whose spectacular career before being lost off the coast of Gibraltar is described here by his best friend and fellow ace Enrich Topp, who wrote this while on his fifteenth War Patrol; Karl-Friedrich Merten, who was ranked among the war’s top tonnage aces; Ralph Kapitsky, whose U-615 suicidal surface-to-air battle in the Caribbean allowed many of his fellow submariners to escape into the Atlantic; Fritz Guggenberger, who sank an aircraft carrier and organized the biggest POW escape attempt in American history; Victor Oehrn, a former staff officer of Karl Dönitz's; and Heinz Eck, who was executed by the British. Includes photographs
Vehicles of Grace and Hope
Author: D. Ben Rees
Publisher: William Carey Library
ISBN: 9780878085057
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A biographical dictionary of Welsh missionaries from all denominations who worked in North-East India during the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, including details of mission supporters and other relevant information about places of interest.
Publisher: William Carey Library
ISBN: 9780878085057
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A biographical dictionary of Welsh missionaries from all denominations who worked in North-East India during the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, including details of mission supporters and other relevant information about places of interest.
Gender and warfare in the twentieth century
Author: Angela K. Smith
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 152613070X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Gender and warfare in the twentieth century is a collection of exciting, accessible and very readable essays that span the twentieth century, exploring the ways in which men and women have both represented warfare, and represented themselves as participants in warfare. A range of contributors from different disciplines explore these representations by examining a wide variety of sources: fiction, film, personal diaries, memoirs, non-fiction, letters, oral testimonies and more. The collection ranges from the trenches of the Western Front, through the shell-shocked inter-war years, the civil war in Spain and the disparate battle fronts of World War Two, to the complexities of Vietnam and the late century Hollywood workings and re-workings of these conflicts. The focus on gendered readings provides a thread that binds these essays together to create a comprehensive and interesting picture of the legacy of twentieth-century warfare at the beginning of the new millennium.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 152613070X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Gender and warfare in the twentieth century is a collection of exciting, accessible and very readable essays that span the twentieth century, exploring the ways in which men and women have both represented warfare, and represented themselves as participants in warfare. A range of contributors from different disciplines explore these representations by examining a wide variety of sources: fiction, film, personal diaries, memoirs, non-fiction, letters, oral testimonies and more. The collection ranges from the trenches of the Western Front, through the shell-shocked inter-war years, the civil war in Spain and the disparate battle fronts of World War Two, to the complexities of Vietnam and the late century Hollywood workings and re-workings of these conflicts. The focus on gendered readings provides a thread that binds these essays together to create a comprehensive and interesting picture of the legacy of twentieth-century warfare at the beginning of the new millennium.
St Helena
Author: Trevor Boult
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445658429
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Explores the fascinating maritime history of St Helena.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445658429
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Explores the fascinating maritime history of St Helena.
Goodnight, Angels
Author: Melody Carlson
Publisher: Zonderkidz
ISBN: 0310423953
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Goodnight, rubber duckie. Thank you for the scrub. Goodnight to the bubbles, Sliding down the tub. As a little boy says goodnight to the things and people in his world, he remembers to offer a thankful nighttime prayer to God. Goodnight Angels gently draws children to sleep as it reminds them that God is watching over them. It’s a sweet bedtime story told in the classic tradition and filled with a spiritual heart.
Publisher: Zonderkidz
ISBN: 0310423953
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Goodnight, rubber duckie. Thank you for the scrub. Goodnight to the bubbles, Sliding down the tub. As a little boy says goodnight to the things and people in his world, he remembers to offer a thankful nighttime prayer to God. Goodnight Angels gently draws children to sleep as it reminds them that God is watching over them. It’s a sweet bedtime story told in the classic tradition and filled with a spiritual heart.