Devil Flotilla

Literature & Fiction

Edwyn GRAY

Genre Fiction

Futura Publications

<p>This book looks at the German battleships of World War II. The battleships of Hitler's navy challenged the enemy in the arctic blizzards of the Barents Sea and gave battle amongst the feeezing mists and ice-floes of the Denmark Strait. They prowled the convoy routes of the North Atlantic and pushed beyond the Equator on raiding sorties that took them from the inshore waters of Brazil and Uruguay to the coastline of West Africa. One, the "Admiral Scheer", even penetrated as far as the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. They sank the battlecruiser "Hood" and the carrier "Glorious". They destroyed an impressive number of merchant ships after firstly ensuring that the passengers and crews were safe. And they humbled Britain's naval pride by breaking through the Dover Straits in broad daylight against all the odds. Churchill considered them to be a greater danger to the Empire's seaborne trade than the lurking menace of the U-boats. Yet despite their tactical victories, the strategic threat they posed to the Allies was never fully appreciated by the Nazi leadership. And it was the misfortune of their crews that they were led by a Fuehrer who once admitted: "On land I am a hero. At sea I am a coward". Indeed at one critical point in the conflict Hitler even demanded that the big ships should be demilitarized and scrapped. The "Kriegsmarine's" battleships fought a long, hard, and chivalrous war. The "Graf Spee" sailed for her combat station a full ten days before Hitler's tanks rolled into Poland. And the "Lutzow" was still firing her guns at the advancing Russian troops four days after the Nazi dictator committed suicide in his Berlin bunker. Yet, not one of Germany's heavy ships was destined to survive the conflict. Two were sent to the bottom by the guns and torpedoes of the Royal Navy. Three fell victim to the bombs of the RAF, and two were scuttled.</p>

Hitler's Battleships

Pen & Sword Books Limited

<p>pp. 274, b/w illustrations, photographs and charts, this is the first comprehensive account of every peacetime submarine disaster from 1774 to the present age.</p>

Few Survived: History of Submarine Disasters

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Pen & Sword Books Ltd

<p><div>Few Survived is the first comprehensive account of every peacetime submarine disaster from 1774 to the present. Along the way, submarine expert Edwyn Gray evokes the peculiarly intense and terrifying experience of being a submariner with such chapters as "Give Us Air," "A Trifling Mistake," "Slow Torture as Well as Death," and "Deliver Us, O Lord." He also describes "Operation: Jennifer," a super secret agreement between Howard Hughes and the CIA to recover a sunken Soviet missile submarine. The author includes all the most recent submarine accidents and much new information made available from recently released Soviet archives. Packed with drama and intrigue from beginning to end, Few Survived is a fascinating account of life and death beneath the waves and an invaluable reference for naval-history enthusiasts. (6 x 9, 288 pages, illustrations) Edwyn Gray's writing career began in 1953. He published his first book in 1969 and went on to write such submarine classics as The Killing Time and A Damned Un-English Weapon, which were translated into Dutch, Italian, German, Danish, Swedish, and Japanese.<br /></div></p>

Few Survived: A History of Submarine Disasters

History

Military

Lyons Pr

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