Fleets Of World War Ii

Author : Richard Worth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 160888225X

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Fleets of World War II (revised Edition) by Richard Worth Pdf

Caught up in global chaos, the navies of World War II had to fight campaigns that rarely matched prewar planning. Each country found itself adapting its fleet compositions, ship designs, personnel training, and weaponry to ever-changing circumstances and ever-fluctuating resources-with varying degrees of success.An understanding of the successes and failures requires an uncompromising critique of the tools of war. Fleets of World War II pins down the warships' actual qualities, a nation-by-nation survey covering everything from the mightiest battlewagons to modest patrol craft.After fifteen years as a staple of naval research, Fleets of World War II now appears in this updated edition with expanded text and more than 150 photographs.Praise for the first edition: "With a substantial library of good books on the fighting ships of the last century and a half, I am glad to add Richard Worth's Fleets of World War II to my collection." -Frank Uhlig, Jr., U. S. Naval War College"This one book contains a perfect distillation of facts, theory and application on almost any ship that saw use in World War II." -Wargamer.com"Fleets of World War II probably represents the best single-volume comprehensive treatment of World War II warships available today." -William J. Jurens, Warship Internationa

Author : Richard Worth
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056452157

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Fleets Of World War II by Richard Worth Pdf

For the first time ever for a popular audience, an extraordinary single volume that describes-and assesses in no-holds-barred fashion-every navy that took part in the Second World War

Author : James P. Duffy
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803266529

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Hitler's Secret Pirate Fleet by James P. Duffy Pdf

This edition of Keller's autobiography is the first major version available in more than 50 years that nearly replicates Keller's work with letters and commentary as it was first published in 1903.

Author : Walter G. Winslow
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612512938

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The Fleet the Gods Forgot by Walter G. Winslow Pdf

The dramatic tale of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in World War II received little attention prior to the publication of this book in 1982, when Winslow chronicled their short and tragic story of heroism and defeat.Greatly outnumbered by vastly superior forces, and saddled with defective equipment; a lack of supplies, reinforcements, and air cover; and, towards the end, an incompetent and bungled Allied combined command, the Asiatic fleet met the Japanese head-on. Within a matter of three months, however, the beleaguered ships were totally wiped out. Captain Walter Winslow, a naval aviator on board the USS Houston, flagship of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, was in a unique position to tell the riveting story. As an active participant in all the major battles the fleet engaged in, he had an intimate understanding of the calamities that befell it. In addition, he drew upon the his own extensive notes he kept from a POW camp while interviewing other American, British, Dutch, and Australian prisoners from the Allied fleet. Winslow also painstakingly tracked down war documents and battle reports from all the ships assigned to the fleet to paint a complete picture filled with graphic details of the fleet’s only victory at Balikpapan; the disastrous Battle of the Java Sea that broke the back of the combined Asiatic fleet; the ghastly spectacle at Sunda Strait where the Houston struggled to survive; the suspenseful episode in the submarine Perch trapped in the mud at the bottom of the sea; and the daring escape from Corregidor of eighteen crewmembers from the USS Quail who refused to surrender to the Japanese forces.

Author : E. B. Potter,Fleet-Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786257055

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The Great Sea War: The Story Of Naval Action In World War II by E. B. Potter,Fleet-Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Pdf

A brilliant, concise and, perhaps, best single volume history of the Second World War at Sea. Written by veteran historian E. B. Potter during his time as resident historian at the United States Naval Academy this history is filled with action and analysis. As the conflict raged from the Pacific to the North Sea the author takes the action in each theater for the purposes of clarity but masterfully links the actions and events together to preserve the historical integrity of the work. A classic of Naval History.

Author : Francis Edwin McMurtrie
Publisher : Gramercy Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : History
ISBN : 0517679639

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Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II by Francis Edwin McMurtrie Pdf

Describes the ships used by the British, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and American navies during World War II

Author : Vincent O'Hara
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612513973

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The German Fleet at War, 1939-1945 by Vincent O'Hara Pdf

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.

Author : Richard Worth
Publisher : Nimble Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : Naval architecture
ISBN : 1608881601

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Fleets of World War II by Richard Worth Pdf

Caught up in global chaos, the navies of World War II had to fight campaigns that rarely matched prewar planning. Each country found itself adapting its fleet compositions, ship designs, personnel training, and weaponry to ever-changing circumstances and ever-fluctuating resources-with varying degrees of success. An understanding of the successes and failures requires an uncompromising critique of the tools of war. Fleets of World War II pins down the warships' actual qualities, a nation-by-nation survey covering everything from the mightiest battlewagons to modest patrol craft. After fifteen years as a staple of naval research, Fleets of World War II now appears in this updated edition with expanded text and more than 150 photographs. Praise for the first edition: "With a substantial library of good books on the fighting ships of the last century and a half, I am glad to add Richard Worth's Fleets of World War II to my collection." -Frank Uhlig, Jr., U. S. Naval War College "This one book contains a perfect distillation of facts, theory and application on almost any ship that saw use in World War II." -Wargamer.com "Fleets of World War II probably represents the best single-volume comprehensive treatment of World War II warships available today." -William J. Jurens, Warship International

Author : Worrall Reed Carter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Logistics, Naval
ISBN : IND:30000139871168

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Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil by Worrall Reed Carter Pdf

Author : Craig L. Symonds
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190243692

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World War II at Sea by Craig L. Symonds Pdf

Author of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune, (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature), Craig L. Symonds has established himself as one of the finest naval historians at work today. World War II at Sea represents his crowning achievement: a complete narrative of the naval war and all of its belligerents, on all of the world's oceans and seas, between 1939 and 1945. Opening with the 1930 London Conference, Symonds shows how any limitations on naval warfare would become irrelevant before the decade was up, as Europe erupted into conflict once more and its navies were brought to bear against each other. World War II at Sea offers a global perspective, focusing on the major engagements and personalities and revealing both their scale and their interconnection: the U-boat attack on Scapa Flow and the Battle of the Atlantic; the "miracle" evacuation from Dunkirk and the pitched battles for control of Norway fjords; Mussolini's Regia Marina-at the start of the war the fourth-largest navy in the world-and the dominance of the Kidö Butai and Japanese naval power in the Pacific; Pearl Harbor then Midway; the struggles of the Russian Navy and the scuttling of the French Fleet in Toulon in 1942; the landings in North Africa and then Normandy. Here as well are the notable naval leaders-FDR and Churchill, both self-proclaimed "Navy men," Karl Dönitz, François Darlan, Ernest King, Isoroku Yamamoto, Erich Raeder, Inigo Campioni, Louis Mountbatten, William Halsey, as well as the hundreds of thousands of seamen and officers of all nationalities whose live were imperiled and lost during the greatest naval conflicts in history, from small-scale assaults and amphibious operations to the largest armadas ever assembled. Many have argued that World War II was dominated by naval operations; few have shown and how and why this was the case. Symonds combines precision with story-telling verve, expertly illuminating not only the mechanics of large-scale warfare on (and below) the sea but offering wisdom into the nature of the war itself.

Author : David Hubert Grover
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015049795084

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U.S. Army Ships and Watercraft of World War II by David Hubert Grover Pdf

Author : J D Brown
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848320420

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Carrier Operations in World War II by J D Brown Pdf

Between 1939 and 1945 the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm grew from a small force into a powerful strategic weapon. British carrier-based aircraft fought throughout the world and David Brown here describes their activities in the Home, Mediterranean, Eastern and British Pacific Fleets, together with Forces created for specific operations, listing aircraft and units embarked during the various phases. He goes on to describe carrier operations in the Pacific between 1941 and 1945, the greatest maritime war in history. Both the United States and Imperial Japanese Navies watched the Royal Navy's early carrier operations in the European Theatre and benefited from the lessons. American aircrews and sailors learnt quickly in action until, by March 1945, the United States Fifth Fleet with its associated Marine Corps formations was probably the most efficient and effective instrument of war deployed in the pre-nuclear age. This new work contains material from two volumes, first published in 1968 and 1974, merged with notes for a third which David Brown prepared but never published before his death. They appear for the first time together, providing the most detailed single-volume account currently available of the operation of British, American and Japanese aircraft carriers in World War II.

Author : John Bunker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015027331407

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Liberty Ships by John Bunker Pdf

Author : Bernard Ireland
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780004721439

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Jane's Naval History of WWII by Bernard Ireland Pdf

The author, a naval historian, reveals the critical elements that determined the war at sea.

Author : William H. Garzke,Robert O. Dulin
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015013951424

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Allied Battleships in World War II by William H. Garzke,Robert O. Dulin Pdf

Contains the only published photographs of the damage sustained by HMS Prince of Wales in her action with the Bismarck. Updated to include British and French radar systems as well as extensive information on the French Richelieu-class and a sketch of the Alsace-class.