The Kaiser S U Boat Assault On America

Author : Hans Joachim Koerver
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526773890

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The Kaiser's U-Boat Assault on America by Hans Joachim Koerver Pdf

A deeply researched and engaging account of the use of U-Boats in the First World War. The focus touches on both diplomatic and economic aspects as well as the tactical and strategic use of the U-boats. The book also examines the role played by US president Woodrow Wilson and his response to American shipping being sunk by U-boats and how that ultimately forced his hand to declare war on Germany.

Author : Gary Gentile
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1883056403

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The Kaiser's U-boats in American Waters by Gary Gentile Pdf

When the Fuhrer sent U-boats to America waters in World War Two, he was repeating a strategy that the Kaiser had tried a generation earlier. Long neglected in the annals of military history is the first attempt to employ a fleet of undersea warships to help achieve world domination. While the Kaiser's surface navy was as ineffective against his enemies as the Fuhrer's surface navy, his use of German submarines, or U-boats, afforded a tactical advantage that was unprecedented in naval warfare. The Kaiser's unterseeboote took a great toll on the world's merchant vessels. The volume in hand is the first of its kind to compare Allied action reports with the deck logs and war diaries of German submarine commanders. These bipolar sources permit a true and accurate assessment of U-boat efficacy, while dispelling erroneous notions about the impact of submarine warfare against staunch American defenders. U-boats torpedoed and shelled harmless fishing vessels, plodding windjammers, and unarmed steamships. They laid mines off U.S. harbor approaches. They left sailors stranded hundreds of miles from shore without adequate food and water. They killed men and women indiscriminately. They took prisoners of war. One U-boat lobbed shells onto a beach on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. This was the first time since the War of 1812 that a foreign country attacked the American mainland. This is the trenchant story of U-boat aggression and American defiance in the Great War of atrocities, when people perished at sea or suffered incredible privation in their struggle to survive.

Author : Paul N. Hodos
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476671628

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The Kaiser's Lost Kreuzer by Paul N. Hodos Pdf

In the final year of World War I, Germany made its first attempt to wage submarine warfare off faraway shores. Large, long-range U-boats (short for unterseeboot or "undersea boat") attacked Allied shipping off the coasts of the U.S., Canada and West Africa in a desperate campaign to sidestep and scatter the lethal U-boat defenses in European waters. Commissioned in 1917, U-156 raided commerce, transported captured cargo and terrorized coastal populations from Madeira to Cape Cod. In July 1918, the USS San Diego was sunk as it headed into New York Harbor--the opening salvo in a month-long series of audacious attacks by U-156 along the North American coast. The author chronicles the campaign from the perspective of Imperial Germany for the first time in English.

Author : Peter Ericson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781435720787

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The Kaiser Strikes America by Peter Ericson Pdf

In the closing months of the First World War, German U-boats attacked the American coast in a last ditch effort to slow the flood of troops and supplies heading to the Western Front. Though generally considered a minor event in the war at sea, the U-boat attacks in the summer and fall of 1918 brought the war to the very doorstep of the United States. For the American people this brought home the fact that they were involved in a struggle of global scope, and that their long treasured sense of isolation from the affairs of the world was a thing of the past.

Author : Ken Brown
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1473887283

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U-boat Assault on America by Ken Brown Pdf

The "Second Happy Time" was the informal name given to the phase of the battle of the Atlantic when German U-boats attacked both merchant and U.S. naval vessels along America's east coast. With tankers burning and petrol rationing in New York City, the U.S. Navy seemed powerless to stop the deprivations of Hitler's marauding U-boats. Ken Brown seeks to explain how the United States responded to these deadly assaults and looks at the steps that the Navy Department took to train the men, harness the scientists, and make the organizational changes that were required to defeat the German threat.

Author : United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Naval art and science
ISBN : NYPL:33433048478154

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Naval Orientation by United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UOM:39015024398912

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U.S. Air Services by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UIUC:30112033766038

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The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2673731

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Naval Orientation by United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel Pdf

Author : E. B Potter
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612517674

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Sea Power by E. B Potter Pdf

A classic work covering over 2,000 years of naval history, from Greek and Roman galley warfare to Vietnam.

Author : Gordon Williamson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780965727

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U-boats of the Kaiser's Navy by Gordon Williamson Pdf

As was the case in World War II, one of the greatest threats to Britain during World War I was the German U-boat menace. This book traces the development of the U-boat threat from the Brandtaucher, designed by Wilhelm Bauer, the father of the German submarine arm, in 1850, through to the commissioning of Germany's first U-boat to go into service, the U-1, in 1906. It then covers the main types of World War I U-boat, detailing the operational history of the U-boat service in depth, with a particular focus on the campaigns in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, as well as the slow build up of anti-submarine measures by the allies.

Author : Macmillan Library Reference Staff,Macmillan Publishing
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PSU:000047466111

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America at War by Macmillan Library Reference Staff,Macmillan Publishing Pdf

Presents America's wartime history from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf. Includes biographies of military personnel and information on treaties.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : NYPL:33433016866539

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Naval Aviation News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Scot MacDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Aircraft carriers
ISBN : CORNELL:31924052951021

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Evolution of Aircraft Carriers by Scot MacDonald Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : CORNELL:31924106320694

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Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events by Anonim Pdf