Research Catalog

Title

The encyclopedia of U-boats : from 1904 to the present / Eberhard Möller and Werner Brack ; translated by Andrea Battson and Roger Chesneau.

Author

Möller, Eberhard, 1924-

Publication

London : Greenhill, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Brack, Werner.

Description

239 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

"This comprehensive reference book traces the hundred-year history of the German submarine from its modest beginnings in 1904, through the huge fleets of the two World Wars, to the commercially successful designs of the present day. Every class of U-boat is given a detailed data sheet, including individual fates, and the book is illustrated throughout with historic photographs and plans." "Chapters devoted to special topics include midget submarines, the development of machinery down to modern air-independent systems, some of the most famous U-boat commanders, surviving boats in museums, and ancillary matters like U-tankers, bunkers and shelters. This genuinely encyclopedic work concludes with a wide-ranging survey of books and other sources."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Submarines (Ships) > Germany > History
• Submarine warfare > Germany > History

Bibliography (note)

• Including bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Translated from the German.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Early submersibles -- U-boats in service -- Projects -- Captured submarines -- Manned torpedoes and miniature -- Machinery, sensors and weapons -- The u-boat 'aces' -- U-boat decoys -- U-tankers -- U-boat bunkers -- U-boats in the Mediterranean and Black Sea -- Commercial U-boats: Deutschland and Bremen -- U-boats preserved -- U-boats of the Austro-Hungarian Navy.

ISBN

1853676233 (hbk.)

OCLC

56643111

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library