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Author : Charles Gilson
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5040518609
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book Submarine U93 written by Charles Gilson and published by Litres. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Gilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781517153465
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)
Download or read book Submarine U93 written by Charles Gilson and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIKE AN EVIL EYE IN THE NIGHT THERE APPEARED AN ANSWERING LIGHT "The war at sea is the subject of Captain Charles Gilson's 'Submarine U93, subtitled 'A Tale of the Great War, of German Spies, and Submarines, of Naval Warfare, and all manner of Adventures.' As the author states, the story consists of 'fact blended with fiction' in dealing with the Battle of Dogger Bank, but its youthful protagonist has once again to contend with the machinations of a spy as well as the might of German naval power. The reader knows what poor Jimmy Burke is up against when he is confronted in New York with Rudolf Stork, 'a strange-looking man, with an exceedingly wrinkled face, and a sinister cast of countenance', who is instinctively distrusted by Jimmy's girl-friend. Stork speaks German, French, English and Dutch, was formerly an actor and once played Iago, so his malignant role can hardly be doubted. Towards the end of the book his venality rather than heroism or courage is underlined when he is described as 'the paid servant of the Wilhelmstrasse, the man who had served the Fatherland for gold'. The man from whom he has taken his orders, Baron von Essling, ends up in a prisoner of war camp at Wakefield reading the Prussian historian Treitschke. Stork's distasteful motives contrast strongly around those of Captain Crouch, who is 'cast in a most heroic mould." -David Blamires, Telling Tales: The Impact of Germany on English Children's, Books 1780-1918 "In sinking one of the most famous of the U-boats within range of the great guns of four of the most powerful of the German battle-cruisers, Captain Crouch accomplished a feat which was as much to his own credit as it was of service to his country. Still, he could never have succeeded had he not been cast in a most heroic mould." "In the following story fact is blended with fiction. The account of the Battle of the North Sea, in which the "Blücher" was sunk, is as historically accurate as is possible with the details at present available. On the other hand, it would be well for the reader to know that the description of the pursuit of the "Dresden" in mid-Atlantic is wholly fictitious. The incident is introduced "for my story's sake," as Robert Louis Stevenson used to say, and also because it is illustrative of the character of the "Sea Affair" in the earlier days of the war." -CHARLES GILSON
Author : Charles Gilson
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781483976297
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)
Download or read book Submarine U93 written by Charles Gilson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tale of the Great War, of German spies, and submarines, of naval warfare, and all manner of adventures. In the following story fact is blended with fiction. The account of the Battle of the North Sea, in which the "Blücher" was sunk, is as historically accurate as is possible with the details at present available. On the other hand, it would be well for the reader to know that the description of the pursuit of the "Dresden" in mid-Atlantic is wholly fictitious. The incident is introduced "for my story's sake," as Robert Louis Stevenson used to say, and also because it is illustrative of the character of the "Sea Affair" in the earlier days of the war.
Author : R.H. Gibson
Publisher : Periscope Publishing Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781904381082
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book The German Submarine War 1914-1918 written by R.H. Gibson and published by Periscope Publishing Ltd.. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of the U-boat campaign in the World War I represents the official British history of the war against the German submarine attack on shipping. From a few fragile craft, the U-boats grew to become the greatest menace to Britain's survival.
Author : Carl Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113616152X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shipwreck in Art and Literature written by Carl Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of shipwreck have always fascinated audiences, and as a result there is a rich literature of suffering at sea, and an equally rich tradition of visual art depicting this theme. Exploring the shifting semiotics and symbolism of shipwreck, the interdisciplinary essays in this volume provide a history of a major literary and artistic motif as they consider how depictions have varied over time, and across genres and cultures. Simultaneously, they explore the imaginative potential of shipwreck as they consider the many meanings that have historically attached to maritime disaster and suffering at sea. Spanning both popular and high culture, and addressing a range of political, spiritual, aesthetic and environmental concerns, this cross-cultural, comparative study sheds new light on changing attitudes to the sea, especially in the West. In particular, it foregrounds the role played by the maritime in the emergence of Western modernity, and so will appeal not only to those interested in literature and art, but also to scholars in history, geography, international relations, and postcolonial studies.
Author : Innes McCartney
Publisher : Periscope Publishing Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1904381049
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lost Patrols written by Innes McCartney and published by Periscope Publishing Ltd.. This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings to life the stories of the 121 submarines that lie entombed on the seabed of the English Channel. Most of them got there as the result of war and peacetime accidents. The first was lost in 1774; the last was the tragic accident that befell HMS Affray in 1951, the last British submarine to have been lost at sea.
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Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Boy's Own Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bartimeus
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465566422
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Awfully Big Adventure written by Bartimeus and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late afternoon sunlight was slanting across the heather when the "Mantis" came puffing round a bend of the river. Contrary to the established custom and traditions of British men-of-war, her crew maintained a breathless and high-spirited dialogue with the Captain, who seasoned it with shrill invective directed at a routed enemy, invisible and presumed to be in full flight amid the bracken. At the bend alluded to, the Captain of the "Mantis" turned and shouted encouragement to the "Moth," who, some hundred yards astern, was negotiating some rapids and presumably under heavy fire. "I say, do buck up!" he cried. "The Turks are retreating like anything!" "I can't buck up," wailed the Captain, officers and ship's company of the "Moth." "There's a bramble all caught up in my petticoat." "Take the beastly thing off then," commanded the Senior Officer, and turned to con his ship through the tortuous shallows of the Upper Reaches. The fir-clad and boulder-strewn slopes of the valley had given place to the open moor, where the stream abandoned its headlong course and broadened into wide pools and shelving beaches of gravel strewn with bleached twigs. The "Tarantula" was discernible still among the cataracts, while in the far distance the Main Army clambered deftly from boulder to boulder and fended off the onslaughts of flies with a frond of bracken. Although the fire of the enemy had perceptibly slackened, the casualties aboard the "Mantis" mounted steadily. Three times the Commanding Officer quitted his ship to wallow in his gore on the springy turf, only returning on each occasion to find the Quartermaster on his knees in the shallows, delivering valedictory rhetoric at his post as his life's blood ebbed. The barred and speckled trout fled up-stream like bronze flashes as the irresistible advance continued. The shrill bark of the "Mantis's" gun searched the hollows and peat bogs for the possibly lurking rearguard of the rout, and sent the shy kingfisher darting ahead of the bedraggled white ensign in the van of the pursuit. Finally the "Mantis" dropped anchor from sheer lack of breath and prepared to disembark a landing party. Her Captain, carrying the ensign and armed to the teeth, climbed on to a lichen-scarred boulder in quest of the remainder of the Naval Forces. "Come on!" he shouted, and the sound of his voice was swallowed by the vast solitude of the moor. The "Moth" had forsaken the waterways and from discreet glimpses afforded by a furze bush bordering the stream was proceeding in execution of previous orders. The "Tarantula"—it was useless to disguise the inglorious fact—was engaged in picking blackberries and sharing them with the Main Army. Far out of reach of hail or reproach, the advance guard of that historic force, hitherto invisible, was alone unquenched in spirit and energy, and rushed to and fro with wagging tail among the bewildering blend of scents left by the passage of rabbit, vole and otter. The Captain of the "Mantis" permitted his nostril to curl contemptuously. "Pouf!" he said, and added—for the benefit of the officers and men of the landing party, desperadoes all—"what can you expect from girls?" His fellow-desperadoes, presumably from motives of chivalry or disgust, vouched no reply, and their leader turned to sweep the path of the retreat through a pair of mother-of-pearl opera glasses, suspended from his neck by a piece of string. Then instinctively, like a wild animal surprised, all the supple grace of his young body stiffened tense and rigid. Not fifty yards up-stream sat a man nursing a rifle across his knees.
Author : Innes McCartney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317601653
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Maritime Archaeology of a Modern Conflict written by Innes McCartney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last 30 years, hydrographical marine surveys in the English Channel helped uncover the potential wreck sites of German submarines, or U-boats, sunk during the conflicts of World War I and World War II. Through a series of systemic dives, nautical archaeologist and historian Innes McCartney surveyed and recorded these wrecks, discovering that the distribution and number of wrecks conflicted with the published histories of U-boat losses. Of all the U-boat war losses in the Channel, McCartney found that some 41% were heretofore unaccounted for in the historical literature of World War I and World War II. This book reconciles these inaccuracies with the archaeological record by presenting case studies of a number of dives conducted in the English Channel. Using empirical evidence, this book investigates possible reasons historical inconsistencies persist and what Allied operational and intelligence-based processes caused them to occur in the first place. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in the fields of nautical archaeology and naval history, as well as wreck explorers.
Author : Andrew R. Wilson
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042023473
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book War, Virtual War and Society written by Andrew R. Wilson and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rarely do academics and policymakers have the opportunity to sit down together and contemplate the broadest consequences of war. Our comprehension has traditionally been limited to war's causes, execution, promotion, opposition, and immediate political and economic ends and aftermath. But just as public health researchers are becoming aware of unexpected, subtle and powerful consequences of human economic action, we are beginning to realize that war has many short- and long-term consequences that we poorly understand but cannot afford to neglect. These papers contribute to a growing discourse among academics, scholars and lawmakers that is questioning and rethinking the nature and purpose of war. By studying the effects of war on communities we can more readily understand and anticipate the consequences of present and future conflicts. Such an understanding might well enable us to plan and execute military action with a more clearly defined set of post-war goals in mind. Whereas traditionally a government at war seeks the defeat of the adversary as its primary and often sole aim, through a clearer understanding of war's effects other aims will also become prominent. War, like surgery, could gradually become more refined, could minimize damage in ways that are currently unimaginable, and could involve an increasingly heavy responsibility to prepare for and facilitate reconstruction. Projects such as this volume are, of course, only the beginning. The more we understand the evolving nature of war, the better prepared we will be to protect communities from its harmful effects.
