The German Navy, 1939-1945 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bekker, Cajus, 1924-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Dial Press, 1974.
Edition:1st American ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The peacetime build-up
  • The pocket battleships
  • The light cruisers Leipzig and Nürnberg
  • The new destroyer force
  • U-boats from scratch
  • The Naval Air Arm
  • The battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst
  • The Z-plan adventure
  • The sail training ships
  • The first offensive
  • Prien's U-47 in Scapa Flow
  • The River Plate drama
  • Operation Weserübung
  • The bid for the Atlantic
  • U-boats : the reconnaissance problem
  • Operation Sealion
  • Ocean raiders
  • The first
  • and last
  • voyage of the Bismarck
  • The Channel breakthrough
  • The heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen
  • The Mediterranean theatre
  • Britain's lifelines threatened
  • Drumbeat off America
  • The battleship Tirpitz
  • The frozen Arctic
  • The battle of the Atlantic
  • U-boats in distant waters
  • The 'Channel workers'
  • Motor torpedo boats in the Straits of Dover
  • Biscay operations
  • The Narvik class destroyers
  • The 'fleet in being'
  • Tragedy of the North Cape
  • The last bid
  • The destruction of the Tirpitz
  • The new U-boats
  • Flight across the Baltic.