ALEXANDER, ROY

The Cruise of the Raider Wolf

Costa Mesa, CA: Noontide Press, 1991. Hardcover. ISBN: 0939482363. DJ shows very light shelf wear. Previous owner's name on title page ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; War And Warriors Series; 9.4 X 6.1 X 1.2 inches; 270 pages; Recounts one of the 20th century's strangest and most stirring sea adventures -- the successful round-the-globe expedition of the First World War German commerce raider and minelayer Wolf. Breaking the Allied blockade, and disguised as a merchant ship, it sank 135,000 tons of Allied shipping. Her story, as told by an Australian radio operator who spent nine months as a captive on board the Wolf, is a tale of seamanship, courage and chivalry unique in the annals of warfare. Unparalleled wartime adventure on the high seas!. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 19144

Catalogue: Militaria::Naval::WWI

Keywords: 0939482363 raider Warship MARITIME Militaria

G. F.; GORDON FRANKLIN

A Naval Digression the Story of a Ship's Company

London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards show some shelf wear, light soiling. Front hinge has started to separate (repaired). Pages tanned, previous owner's name on blank page.; Blue cloth covered boards ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 247 pages; A personal account of a sailor in the Royal Navy in WWI. Very Good- with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 19090

Catalogue: Militaria::Naval::WWI

Keywords: WWI Royal navy Naval

MASSIE, ROBERT K.

Castles of Steel Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea

New York: Random House, 2003. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 0345408780. Card covers show light shelf wear, previous owner's name on title page and place on the fly leaf. ; A bright, solid book. A section of B&W photos ; Trade PB; 6.1 X 1.3 X 9.13 inches; 865 pages; " a sequel to Dreadnought that is imposing in both size and quality, taking the British and German battle fleets through WWI. The fluent narrative begins amid the diplomatic crisis of July 1914 and ends with the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919. Massie makes a coherent if long narrative out of a sequence of events familiar to students of naval history but probably not to many other potential readers. The focus is on the two fleets that confronted each other across the North Sea, their weapons and tactics and their complex and controversial leaders, both military and political. As in his other books, the author describes his cast of characters with the vividness of a novelist, British Admiral Beatty's disastrous marriage being a painful case in point. What emerges from that focus is not only a number of outstanding battle narratives (Jutland is only the most famous), but a closely argued case for the German fleet having been a disaster for its country's war effort. Once built, the High Seas Fleet made war with England and the blockade of Germany inevitable. Unable to break the blockade with that expensive fleet, Germany felt compelled to choose between a negotiated peace and unrestricted submarine warfare. Once the Germans chose the latter course, American intervention and disaster become nearly unavoidable. It may seem odd to describe a book of this size as an "introduction," but readers will soon understand that the size of the topic requires a long narrative. "Castles of steel" was Winston Churchill's grand phrase for the Grand Fleet and its German counterpart, and this unusually fine military narrative lives up to it as well." (Pub. Weekly). Very Good .

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Book number: 21044

Catalogue: Militaria::WWI::Naval

Keywords: 0345408780 fleets scapa flow blockade Militaria