Author: Peter Charles Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780718302184
Category : Cruisers (Warships)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Cruisers in Action, 1939-1945
German Light Cruisers 1939–45
Author: Gordon Williamson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1780966202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The German Navy of World War II was small in number, but contained some of the most technologically advanced capital ships in the world. This meant that although the Kriegsmarine never felt capable of encountering the might of the British Navy in a fleet action, her ships were individually more than a match for the outdated vessels of the Royal Navy. Nowhere was this more the case than in Germany's fleet of light cruisers. There were only six vessels in this fleet: the Emden, Leipzig, Köln, Königsberg, Karlsruhe and Nurnberg. This book describes their design, development and varied operational history throughout the course of the Second World War.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1780966202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The German Navy of World War II was small in number, but contained some of the most technologically advanced capital ships in the world. This meant that although the Kriegsmarine never felt capable of encountering the might of the British Navy in a fleet action, her ships were individually more than a match for the outdated vessels of the Royal Navy. Nowhere was this more the case than in Germany's fleet of light cruisers. There were only six vessels in this fleet: the Emden, Leipzig, Köln, Königsberg, Karlsruhe and Nurnberg. This book describes their design, development and varied operational history throughout the course of the Second World War.
World War II as Seen Through the Eyes of United States Navy Cruisers
Author: George J. Chambers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780788456664
Category : Battle cruisers
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This comprehensive two-volume set details the role played by the eighty-three light and heavy United States Navy cruisers that fought in World War II against the Axis Powers in the Atlantic Ocean, the English Channel, the Mediterranean Sea, the Norwegian Sea, the Barents Sea, the Bering Sea, the Pacific Ocean, the Antarctic Ocean and elsewhere. Cruisers saw extensive action in both the Pacific and Atlantic/European Theaters of operations, and fought in every major sea engagement with the exception of the Second Battle of Guadalcanal and the night action at Vella LaLavalla. During the course of World War II, cruisers performed a variety of missions including scouting, offensive strikes against surface and land targets, defensive actions in support of aircraft carriers, escorting and protecting destroyers as they executed their torpedo attacks, and escorting convoys. Sixty-six cruisers were either damaged or sunk by enemy action; twenty-three heavy cruisers were damaged by bombs, torpedoes, suicide planes or during strafing attacks and thirty-three light cruisers were damaged from the same causes. These casualties occurred during actions against aircraft, submarines, surface craft or shore batteries. In Chapter I, dates and operating theaters are co-mingled. From then on, each chapter addresses a specific year and is divided into specific theatres of operation. This work outlines the organizations that they served with and the role that each ship played, both individually and in fleet actions. Allied cruisers that served with the U.S. cruisers are also mentioned. All accounts are based on entries in individual cruisers or other ships Logs, War Diaries, and Action Reports. In addition to official records, the author has drawn on the vast body of knowledge compiled by historians over the past seventy plus years. Appendix A contains an alphabetical listing of all the United States cruisers that served at some period during World War II; Appendix B contains the same list arranged by date of commissioning. An extensive list of names of people involved, places and ships and aircraft has been compiled in the index.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780788456664
Category : Battle cruisers
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This comprehensive two-volume set details the role played by the eighty-three light and heavy United States Navy cruisers that fought in World War II against the Axis Powers in the Atlantic Ocean, the English Channel, the Mediterranean Sea, the Norwegian Sea, the Barents Sea, the Bering Sea, the Pacific Ocean, the Antarctic Ocean and elsewhere. Cruisers saw extensive action in both the Pacific and Atlantic/European Theaters of operations, and fought in every major sea engagement with the exception of the Second Battle of Guadalcanal and the night action at Vella LaLavalla. During the course of World War II, cruisers performed a variety of missions including scouting, offensive strikes against surface and land targets, defensive actions in support of aircraft carriers, escorting and protecting destroyers as they executed their torpedo attacks, and escorting convoys. Sixty-six cruisers were either damaged or sunk by enemy action; twenty-three heavy cruisers were damaged by bombs, torpedoes, suicide planes or during strafing attacks and thirty-three light cruisers were damaged from the same causes. These casualties occurred during actions against aircraft, submarines, surface craft or shore batteries. In Chapter I, dates and operating theaters are co-mingled. From then on, each chapter addresses a specific year and is divided into specific theatres of operation. This work outlines the organizations that they served with and the role that each ship played, both individually and in fleet actions. Allied cruisers that served with the U.S. cruisers are also mentioned. All accounts are based on entries in individual cruisers or other ships Logs, War Diaries, and Action Reports. In addition to official records, the author has drawn on the vast body of knowledge compiled by historians over the past seventy plus years. Appendix A contains an alphabetical listing of all the United States cruisers that served at some period during World War II; Appendix B contains the same list arranged by date of commissioning. An extensive list of names of people involved, places and ships and aircraft has been compiled in the index.
Cruisers in Action, 1939-1945
Author: Peter Charles Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cruisers (Warships)
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cruisers (Warships)
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Der Seekrieg
Author: Friedrich Ruge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Cruisers of World War Two
Author: M. J. Whitley
Publisher: Naval Inst Press
ISBN: 9781557501417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Illustrated with hundreds of archive photographs and line drawings, Cruisers of World War Two is the large-format, comprehensive reference on the subject. Within one volume, it describes all the cruisers extant, completed or laid down during the period 1939-1945 by the nations of the world. Each class is featured with full coverage of its design, construction and subsequent modifications, together with tabulated details of builder, dates, specification data and notes on the fate of each ship. In format with the author's earlier work Destroyers of World War Two, this book is a major contribution to naval literature, which will enable historians, modellers and veterans to study the subject with an extra thoroughness and accuracy.
Publisher: Naval Inst Press
ISBN: 9781557501417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Illustrated with hundreds of archive photographs and line drawings, Cruisers of World War Two is the large-format, comprehensive reference on the subject. Within one volume, it describes all the cruisers extant, completed or laid down during the period 1939-1945 by the nations of the world. Each class is featured with full coverage of its design, construction and subsequent modifications, together with tabulated details of builder, dates, specification data and notes on the fate of each ship. In format with the author's earlier work Destroyers of World War Two, this book is a major contribution to naval literature, which will enable historians, modellers and veterans to study the subject with an extra thoroughness and accuracy.
Sea Warfare 1939-1945
Author: John Creswell
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The War at Sea, 1939-1945: The defensive
Author: Stephen Wentworth Roskill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
The German Fleet at War, 1939-1945
Author: Vincent O'Hara
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612513972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The German Fleet at War relates the little-known history of the Kriegsmarine's surface fleet with a focus on the sixty-nine surface naval battles fought by Germany's major warships against the large warships of the British, French, American, Polish, Soviet, Norwegian and Greek navies. It emphasizes operational details but also paints a broad overview of the naval war. The book addresses the lack of information about the specifics of naval engagements in World War II and provides a database of naval engagements for comparison and analysis, but unlike most reference works, it has a continuous narrative and a theme. The result is a unique overview of the German and Allied navies at war that provides new appreciation of their activities and accomplishments.
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612513972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The German Fleet at War relates the little-known history of the Kriegsmarine's surface fleet with a focus on the sixty-nine surface naval battles fought by Germany's major warships against the large warships of the British, French, American, Polish, Soviet, Norwegian and Greek navies. It emphasizes operational details but also paints a broad overview of the naval war. The book addresses the lack of information about the specifics of naval engagements in World War II and provides a database of naval engagements for comparison and analysis, but unlike most reference works, it has a continuous narrative and a theme. The result is a unique overview of the German and Allied navies at war that provides new appreciation of their activities and accomplishments.
German Pocket Battleships 1939–45
Author: Gordon Williamson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1780966180
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
After the end of World War I, the German Navy came up with the concept of the Panzerschiffe, or Pocket Battleship, as a method of circumventing treaty limitations on the size and types of ship Germany was permitted to build. New, more modern production methods, where welded construction prevailed over the older riveting process, were combined with the development of modern engines capable of fast speeds and a very powerful armament, far superior to that on any enemy Cruisers. This book covers these three sister ships, the 'Deutschland', the 'Admiral Graf Spee' and the 'Admiral Scheer', which formed the core of the Kriegsmarine's fighting power at the start of World War II.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1780966180
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
After the end of World War I, the German Navy came up with the concept of the Panzerschiffe, or Pocket Battleship, as a method of circumventing treaty limitations on the size and types of ship Germany was permitted to build. New, more modern production methods, where welded construction prevailed over the older riveting process, were combined with the development of modern engines capable of fast speeds and a very powerful armament, far superior to that on any enemy Cruisers. This book covers these three sister ships, the 'Deutschland', the 'Admiral Graf Spee' and the 'Admiral Scheer', which formed the core of the Kriegsmarine's fighting power at the start of World War II.