Mass market paperback. Pages browning. Creasing on back cover and small tear on back endpaper. Good. The author spent much of his life working on sailing barges and so he is no stranger to the seas when he joins up at age 16 in 1940. This is the story of his war in the Royal Navy. He serves on the Murmansk run and on transatlantic duties. He witnessed the battle that finished Hood and Bismarck and took part in the chase that sank Scharnhorst.

1986, Grafton (Paperbacks), , ,< N-01>,282pp, , 0, CARD
Subject...Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General
Web No. 38029-01..............................£2.00 

When war broke out in 1939, German U-boats went quickly into action, but with only four years of production and development, the armament of these submarines was considerably weaker than equivalent boats in other navies and many of the other main features, such as living and fighting conditions, were also significantly inferior. Nevertheless, the German U-boat onslaught against British merchant ships during the autumn of 1940 was highly successful because the attacks were made on the surface at night and from such close range that a single torpedo would sink a ship. A new generation of attack U-boats that had been introduced since Hitler came to power needed urgent improvement. This is the story of the Types II, VII and IX that had already become the ‘workhorse’ of the Kriegsmarine’s submarine fleet and continued to put out to sea to attack Allied shipping right up to the end of the war.

2020, Frontline Books, , 9781526771018,< N-01>,263pp, c250 b/w photos & diagrams, new in d/w, ,
Subject...Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General
Web No. 38106-01..............................£25.00 

Otto Kretschmer was only in combat from September 1939 until March 1941 but was Germany's highest-scoring U-boat commander sinking 47 ships totalling 274,333 tons. Aged 17 he spent 8 months studying literature at Exeter University where he learned to speak English fluently. The following year, on 1 April 1930, he enlisted as an officer candidate in the Weimar Republic's small navy, moving on to the Kriegsmarine's U-boat service. He was finally given command of U23, a post which he held until April 1940. He had already sunk 8 ships including the destroyer HMS Daring east of Pentland Firth on 18 February 1940. He demonstrated a cool approach to combat, his mantra being ‘one torpedo for one ship’.

2018, Greenhill Books, , 9781784381929,< N-01>,268pp, 75 b/w photos, numerous maps 7 plans, new in d/w, ,
Subject...Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General
Web No. 38037-01..............................£25.00 

U-Boat 977 was the German submarine that escaped to Argentina at the end of World War Two. This epic journey started from Bergen in Norway, where in April 1945 it was temporarily based, and took three and a half months to complete. Because of the continuing Allied naval activity the commander decided to make the first part of the journey underwater. Before surfacing near the west coast of Africa U-977 had spent a remarkable sixty-six days submerged.In the final months of the war, and in common with most surviving U-boat commanders, Schaeffer and his crew came under constant attacks from Allied aircraft and surface ships.

2017, Greenhill Books, , 9781784382490,< N-01>,213pp, 8 b/w photos, new in d/w, ,
Subject...Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General
Web No. 38038-01..............................£19.99 

mass market paperback.Pages browning. well used. In 1942 a convoy sailed to relive the island in Malta but lying in wait were a vast force of german submarines and aircraft. One of the few survivors from the convoy was the SS Ohio. This is the story of the men who sailed her through the attack to arrive broken backed and sinking in Malta's harbour.

1981, Fontana, , 0006329640,< N-01>,192pp illustrations, Good in card covers, , CARD
Subject...Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General
Web No. 36587-01..............................£2.00 

The Evolution of the Ships that Fought the Second World War. Cruisers probably vary more in their characteristics than any other warship type and have certainly been subject to the most convoluted development. There was always a basic tension between quantity and quality, between numbers and unit size, but at a more detailed level every one of the naval powers made different demands of their cruiser designers. This makes the story of cruiser evolution in the world’s major navies fascinating but complex. How the cruisers of the treaty era performed in the Second world War forms the focus of the book, which concludes with a look at the fate of the cruiser-type since 1945.

2020, Pen & Sword, , 9781526737915,< N-01>,large format, 288pp, c300 b/w photos, new in d/w, ,
Subject...Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General
Web No. 38146-01..............................£35.00 

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 Type IXc/40 boat, U-188 under Kapitänleutnant Lüdden on three patrols witnessing the stark reality of convoy warfare from his lookout position on the conning tower of his submarine. His U-boat sank the British destroyer HMS Beverley and eight merchant ships exceeding 100,000 gross tons but the submarine also spent many hours submerged under depth-charge attacks. This is his account as told to the author.

2015, Frontline Books, , 9781848327603,< N-01>,196pp, 22 b/w illustrations, new in d/w, ,
Subject...Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General
Web No. 38071-01..............................£19.99 

Fighting Captains and Frigate Warfare in the Age of Nelson. The author skilfully dissects the events of the war years, focussing on the war between opposing frigates which entailed the blockade of enemy ports, the interception of enemy trade and the protection of Britain's merchant ships. The whole magnificent sweep of this great struggle is set against its political background of the Napoleonic wars and the sea war with America. The book features an array of young, daring and hugely skilled frigate captains whose ability to grasp the chances offered by war made them household names. Some, like Warren, Pellew, Cochrane and Collingwood, are still renowned

2014, Seaforth Publishing, , 9781848322028,< N-01>,384pp, 12 b/w illustrations, 5 maps, new in card cover, , CARD
Subject...Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General
Web No. 38049-01..............................£16.99 

This is a much expanded and updated edition of the author’s original Israeli Sherman, published in 2001 and long out-of-print. Following a general description of the basic M4 series, the humble beginning of the very first Sherman in service in 1948 is covered in detail. Hundreds of black-and-white photographs trace the evolution of Israel’s Shermans from cobbled-together veterans of the Second World War into some of the most lethal variants of the series ever conceived. There is also coverage of specialised vehicles, such as ARVs, dozers and mine clearing vehicles. The various types used in the War of Independence, the 1956 Sinai Campaign, the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War are all covered in depth. There are also a few never-before-published photographs of the unique APC developed by Lebanese engineers and used by the South Lebanon Army. Model builders will appreciate the detailed close-up colour images of Israeli Shermans

2017, Barbarossa Books, 2nd Edition, 9781847680235,< P-01>,406pp 372 colour & 375 b/w photos & illustrations, new in illustrated boards, ,
Subject...Land Vehicles & Weapons - General
Web No. 37718-01..............................£69.99 

The T-14 ‘Armata’ Main Battle Tank made its public debut in May 2015, at a time of renewed tensions between Russia and the United States and its NATO allies. The appearance of the T-14 was for Western observers as much a revelation as the IS-3 heavy tank that made a shock appearance in the Victory Parade in Berlin in September 1945. After years of making do with updating Soviet era tanks, the Armata is the first genuinely new post-Soviet Russian design. The T-14 is technically sophisticated and the first with a fully automated turret entirely devoid of crew as one of many new design features. However, the tank is expensive to build and maintain compared to the T-90 and T-72B3 MBTs and requires significant crew training compared with other tank types.

2018, Canfora Publishing,Sweden, Russian Ordnance in Focus, 9789198477511,< P-01>,Landscape format, 81pp, c150 colour photos, new in card cover, , CARD
Subject...Land Vehicles & Weapons - General
Web No. 37842-01..............................£19.99