Hitler's U-Boat War - the Hunters 1939-1942

History

BLAIR, Clay

Europe

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Hitler's U-Boat War : The Hunted, 1942-1945

A brilliant and definitive account of great military genius at work.

Hitler's U-Boat War the Hunters, 1939-42

World

Cassell Military

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Beyond Courage

Asia

Ballantine Books

Tells the stories of Air Force pilots, who, shot down over Korea, managed to escape or avoid capture and make their way through enemy lines back to safety

Americas

Heralded as an imposing and important work when first published in 1987, this history of the Korean War offers a complete and detailed portrayal of the conflict. Clay Blair, a highly respected military writer, is credited with taking a close and blistering look at high-level defense policy and ground-level leadership of the U.S. Army. He supports his analysis with official records and interviews with participants as well as his own deep knowledge of Washington personalities and politics. Blair's book captures the intensity of the conflict through the eyes of senior officers, explaining defeats and victories from the perspective of the U.S. battalion, regiment, and division commanders responsible for the progress of the war. As a collective portrait of the American officer corps at war, the book is uniquely valuable. 
Highly critical of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's leadership during the period, Blair also takes President Truman to task for his misjudgments and occasionally faults the conduct of corps and division commanders while offering unstinting praise for Gen. Matthew Ridgway's turn around of a demoralized field army. This day-by-day, unit-by-unit account of what went on provides details unmatched in other books on the subject. 1152 pages. 128 photos. 12 line drawings. Paperback. 6 x 9 inches.

The Forgotten War: America in Korea 1950-1953

Anchor

Chronicles the history of America's paratroopers in World War II and recounts the achievement of General Matthew Ridgway in successfully implementing the new airborne warfare

Ridgway's Paratroopers: The American Airborne in World War II

Military

DOUBLEDAY

Clay Blair's best-selling naval classic Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan, is regarded as the definitive account of that decisive phase of the war in the Pacific. Nine years in the making, Hitler's U-boat War is destined to become the definitive account of the German submarine war against the Allies, or "The Battle of the Atlantic." It is an epic sea story, the most arduous and prolonged naval battle in all history. For a period of nearly six years, the German U-boat force attempted to blockade and isolate the British Isles, in hopes of forcing the British out of the war, thereby thwarting the Allied strategic air assault on German cities as well as Overlord, the Allied invasion of Occupied France. Fortunately for the Allies, the U-boat force failed to achieve either of these objectives, but in the attempt they sank 2,800 Allied merchant ships, while the Allies sank nearly 800 U-boats. On both sides, tens of thousands of sailors perished. The top secret Allied penetration of German naval codes, and, conversely, the top secret German penetration of Allied naval codes played important roles in the Atlantic naval battle. In order to safeguard the secrets of codebreaking in the postwar years, London and Washington agreed to withhold all official codebreaking and U-boat records. Thus for decade upon decade an authoritative and definitive history of the Battle of the Atlantic could not be attempted. The accounts that did appear were incomplete and full of errors of fact and false interpretations and conclusions, often leaving the entirely wrong impression that the German U-boats came within a whisker of defeating the Allies, a myth that persists. When London and Washington finally began to release the official records in the 1980s, Clay Blair and his wife, Joan, commenced work on this history in Washington, London, and Germany. They relied on the official records as well as the work of German, British, American, and Canadian naval scholars who published studies of bits and pieces of the story. The end result is this magnificent and monumental work, crammed with vivid and dramatic scenes of naval actions and dispassionate but startling new revelations and interpretations and conclusions about all aspects of the Battle of the Atlantic. The Blair history will be published in two volumes. This first volume, The Hunters, covers the first three years of the war, August 1939 to August 1942. Told chronologically, it is subdivided into two major sections, the War Against the British Empire, and the War Against the Americas. Volume II, The Hunted, to follow a year later, will cover the last years of the naval war in Europe, August 1942 to May 1945, when the Allies finally overcame the U-boat threat. Never before has Hitler's U-boat war been chronicled with such authority, fidelity, objectivity, and detail. Nothing is omitted. Even those who fought the Battle of the Atlantic will find no end of surprises. Later generations will benefit by having at hand an account of this important phase of World War II, free of bias and mythology.

Hitler's U-Boat War : The Hunters, 1939-1942 (Hitler's U Boat War)

Random House]

A detailed reconstruction of United States submarine activity in the Pacific between December 1941 and August 1945, assessing the submarine's role in the overall War and profiling outstanding and representative officers and crew members

Silent Victory: The U. S. Submarine War Against Japan

Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins

This is the story of a man who knew what he wanted to do very early in life and actually did it... proving that you CAN do anything you set your mind to do if you have the passion for it and persistence. The book is full of details about the particular series of flights in the X-15 but also contains much evidence of a full, well lived life.

Always Another Dawn: The Story of a Rocket Test Pilot (Literature and History of Aviation)

Biographies & Memoirs

Crossfield, A. Scott

Professionals & Academics

Arno Press, Inc

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Hitler's U-Boat War - the Hunters 1939-1942

Hitler's U-Boat War : The Hunted, 1942-1945

Hitler's U-Boat War the Hunters, 1939-42

Beyond Courage

Beyond Courage

The Forgotten War: America in Korea 1950-1953

Ridgway's Paratroopers: The American Airborne in World War II

Hitler's U-Boat War : The Hunters, 1939-1942 (Hitler's U Boat War)

Silent Victory: The U. S. Submarine War Against Japan

Always Another Dawn: The Story of a Rocket Test Pilot (Literature and History of Aviation)