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1	An Honorable German more books like this by Charles L McCain add to wishlist In the early months of World War II, Max Brekendorf, a proud young German naval officer, strives to fight for his country with honour and courage. With the seemingly unstoppable German war machine overrunning Europe and poised to secure its place among the great world powers, Max looks ahead to a bright future with his fiancee, Mareth. But as the ... see all copies from $5.19! new only from $13.16! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Memoirs--Ten Years and Twenty Days more books like this by Karl Doenitz, Jurgen Rohwer (Illustrator), Karl Donitz add to wishlist Commander of the U-boat fleet, Supreme Naval Commander, and finally Hitler's successor in the last days of the Third Reich, Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz (18911980) has been condemned as a Nazi and praised as one of the most brilliant and honorable military leaders of the war. His "wolfpack" tactics resulted in a handful of U-boats sinking 14. 5 ... see all copies from $12.50! new only from $18.12! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Das Boot: The Boat more books like this by Lothar Gunther Buchheim add to wishlist It is autumn 1941 and a German U-boat commander and his crew set out on yet another hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic. Over the coming weeks they must brave the stormy waters of the Atlantic in their mission to seek out and destroy British supply ships. But the tide is beginning to turn against the Germans in the war for the North ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $5.42! \| SVS
4	Hitler's Secret Pirate Fleet: The Deadliest Ships of World War II more books like this by James P Duffy add to wishlist They were the deadliest ships of World War II - nine German commerce raiders disguised as peaceful cargo ships, flying the flags of neutral and allied nations. In reality, these heavily armed warships roamed the world's oceans at will, like twentieth-century pirates. They struck unsuspecting freighters and tankers out of the darkness of night or ... see all copies from $2.78! new only from $4.68! \| first editions \| SVS
5	War on the High Seas more books like this by Time-Life Books add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.01! \| first editions
6	Miracles on the Water: The Heroic Survivors of a World War II U-Boat Attack more books like this by Tom Nagorski add to wishlist Based on firsthand accounts from child survivors and other passengers, including the author's great-uncle, "Miracles on the Water" is an unforgettable story of children in wartime, of heroism at sea, and of courage and the power of the human spirit. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942 more books like this by Clay Blair, Jr. add to wishlist The first of two volumes on the Nazi U-boats during World War II covers the years 1939-1942. see all copies from $2.14! new only from $8.85! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt more books like this by William L Shirer add to wishlist The Bismark was the greatest warship ever built, with guns so powerful and accurate it could destroy an enemy ship while safely staying outside the line of fire. But the Allies had to sink it...or risk losing the war. William Shirer, famed World War II correspondent and author of "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" (0099421763), captures every ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.81! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Raiders of the deep more books like this by Lowell Jackson Thomas add to wishlist This 1928 best seller offers a sympathetic, behind-the-scenes look at the men who prowled the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and English Channel in U-boats. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.68! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Shadow Voyage: The Extraordinary Wartime Escape of the Legendary SS Bremen more books like this by Peter A Huchthausen add to wishlist A fast--paced, little--known story of danger at sea on the eve of World War II On the sweltering evening of August 30, 1939, the German luxury liner S.S. Bremen slipped her moorings on Manhattan's west side, abandoned all caution (including foghorns, radar, and running lights), and sailed out of New York Harbor, commencing a dramatic escape run ... see all copies from $6.59! new only from $15.25! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Battleship Bismarck: A Survivor's Story more books like this by Burkard Von Mullenheim-Rechberg, Burkard Mhullenheim-Rechberg add to wishlist 'One of the most significant examples of Britlain's sea power was the chase and final destruction of the most powerful warship in the world, the Bismarck. We cheered when she went down, a tremendous threat had been removed. But some of us, sometimes, thought about the other side of the story. Thanks to Baron von Mullenheim-Rechberg, one of her ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $89.95! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Last Gentleman-Of-War: The Raider Exploits of the Cruiser Emden more books like this by R K Lochner, Thea Lindauer (Translator), Harry Lindauer (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.95! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Ship That Changed the World: The Escape of the Goeben to the Dardanelles in 1914 more books like this by Dan Van Der Vat add to wishlist This is the story of 12 days that changed the world. As the outbreak of the Great War drew ever nearer, the German navy had just two ships in the Mediterranean - the new battle-cruiser "Goeben" and the light cruiser "Breslau". Against them was arrayed 16 British and French battleships and cruisers. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $77.85! \| first editions
14 view cover	Operation Drumbeat: The Dramatic True Story of Germany's First U-Boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II more books like this by Michael Gannon add to wishlist An account of Germany's little known U-boat campaign against merchant shipping along the North American Atlantic coast during the first six months of 1942. It also documents the failure of the US Navy to meet the German attack. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.93! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	The Destruction of the Bismarck more books like this by David J Bercuson, Holger H Herwig add to wishlist This book is history of the best sort, at once vivid and authoritative, offering the definitive account of one of the most dramatic and momentous events of the Second World War--the sinking by the British of the German battleship "Bismarck." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Invasion, 1940: The Truth about the Battle of Britain and What Stopped Hitler more books like this by Derek Robinson add to wishlist The Battle of Britain could not stop Operation Sealion, the planned German invasion. The historians got it wrong. This is a big claim to make, yet the reasoning behind it is remarkably straightforward. In Invasion 1940, author Derek Robinson asks why historians have dovetailed the Battle of Britain with Operation Sealion. Military experts say ... see all copies from $7.89! new only from $7.89! \| first editions
17 view cover	Robert Ballard's Bismarck more books like this by Dr. Robert Ballard, Rick Archbold, Ludovic Kennedy (Introduction by) add to wishlist see all copies from $7.08! new only from $11.45! \| SVS
18 view cover	Wolf Pack: The Story of the U-Boat in World War II more books like this by Gordon Williamson add to wishlist Germany's World War 2 U-Boat fleet was a truly elite fighting force. The U-Boat Waffe represented the cream of Germany's naval personnel, and in terms of technology, training, tactics and combat successes, the German fleet was far superior to that of any other combatant nation. This book tells the complete U-Boat story. The wartime development of ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $6.10! \| first editions
19 view cover	Black May: The Epic Story of the Allies' Defeat of the German U-Boats in May 1943 more books like this by Michael V Gannon add to wishlist Gannon has written an account of the turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic, when the Allied forces took control of the North Atlantic shipping lanes back from the German U-boats. The single month of May, 1943 saw 13 merchant ships and six U-boats sunk in an operation that eventually perfected Allied strategy and effectively banished the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Cassell Military Classics: Battle Beneath the Waves: U-Boats at War more books like this by Robert Stern add to wishlist This is the powerful story of the U-boat wars, recreated from the experiences of German survivors. The drama and excitement of it all is more than matched by the constant, numbing danger, unimaginable to anyone who has not lain silent and freezing, facing death beneath the waves in a trapped submarine under attack. All this is set in the context ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.87! \| SVS
21 view cover	U-boat operations of the second world war. Vol. 1, Career histories, U1-U510 more books like this by Kenneth G. Wynn add to wishlist see all copies from $43.23! first editions
22 view cover	U-Boats Under the Swastika more books like this by Jak P. Mallman Showell add to wishlist Written by the son of a U-boat crewman, this book traces the history of the U-boat arm of the Germany Na vy. Illustrated with contemporary photographs and drawings, the book looks at why the U-boats were made, and how they pe rformed in battle. ' see all copies from $2.98! signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Hood and Bismarck more books like this by Dr. David Mearns, Motorbooks International (Creator) add to wishlist The meeting of the Bismarck and HSM Hood in 1941 ended with the destruction of the two battleships and the loss of 3500 lives. This book chronicles the expedition to find the Hood's wreck and reveal the truth about the battle. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $99.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Between the Hunters and the Hunted more books like this by Steven Wilson add to wishlist In the early days of World War II, Great Britain is fighting for its life. With the Nazi Luftwaffe and U-boat wolfpacks bearing down, they've never needed America more. In secret, Winston Churchill travels by sea to Newfoundland to meet with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. When the Nazis learn of the meeting, they deploy their greatest weapon - ... see all copies from $2.85! new only from $5.13!
25 view cover	Tirpitz: Hunting the Beast more books like this by John Sweetman add to wishlist This text offers an account of a key operation of World War II. For much of the war, the powerful German battleship "Tirpitz" had dominated the Atlantic and was a deadly adversary of the Allied convoys. The Royal Navy had achieved notable successes in sinking the "Graf Spee" in 1939 and the "Bismarck" in 1941, but from its base in Norway, "Tirpitz ... see all copies from $2.43! new only from $14.82! \| first editions

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	Hitler's U-boat war. The hunted, 1942-1945 by Clay Blair see all from $8.39! new only from $99.00!
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	Count Luckner, the Sea Devil by Lowell Thomas see all from $2.00! new only from $142.94!
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	The Grand Scuttle: The Sinking of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919 by Dan Van Der Vat see all from $2.53! new only from $10.40!
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