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The #1 New York Times best-selling author of In the Garden of Beasts presents a 100th-anniversary chronicle of the sinking of the Lusitania that discusses the factors that led to the tragedy and the contributions of such figures as President Wilson, bookseller Charles Lauriat and architect Theodate Pope Riddle.
3) Black May
Author
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
xxviii, 492 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
"In May 1943, Allied sea and air forces won a stunning, dramatic, and vital victory over the largest and most powerful submarine force ever sent to sea, sinking forty-one German U-boats and damaging thirty-seven others. It was the forty-fifth month of World War II, and by the end of May the Germans were forced to acknowledge defeat and recall almost all of their remaining U-boats from the major traffic lanes of the North Atlantic."--Jacket.
Chronicles...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
80 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm.
Description
"U-505 was the first enemy warship the US Navy captured at sea since 1812. This is a new account of how Captain Gallery planned and executed the raid on his own initiative, and how his success almost endangered the war against the U-boats. On June 4, 1944 a US Navy antisubmarine task group in the Atlantic captured an enemy U-boat on the high seas. It was not the first time the Allies had taken a German U-boat as a prize, but the capture of U-505 was...
8) Das Boot
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (293 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Superb detailing of life in a German U-boat during WWII. The original uncut version. Based on the novel by Lothar G. Buchheim. Includes a making-of featurette; restored original stereo audio; and much more.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A look at the first (and last) mission of the German battleship Bismarck, including talks with survivors, and at the location and exploration of the battleship in waters three miles deep, 600 miles off the coast of France.
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On Sept. 17, 1940, at a little after ten at night, a German submarine torpedoed the passenger liner S.S. City of Benares in the North Atlantic. There were 406 people on board, including 90 children headed for peaceful Canada, their parents having elected to send them away from Great Britain to escape the ravages of World War II. The Benares sank in half an hour, in a gale that sent several of her lifeboats pitching into the frigid sea, more than three...
12) U-571
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During World War II, a group of Navy men are sent to steal Enigma (the nazis' top-secret decoding device). When their own ship is destroyed, they must secretly make their way through hostile waters in a severely damaged Nazi U-boat to safety with the device.
13) The sea chase
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
German naval officer Karl Ehrlich loves his country and hates Hitler. As World War II erupts, Ehrlich defies orders and takes his freighter on a fox-and-hound pursuit from the Germans and the British.
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Pub. Date
2016
Description
Mathews County, Virginia, is a remote outpost on the Chesapeake Bay with little to offer except unspoiled scenery -- but it sent one of the largest concentrations of sea captains and U.S. merchant mariners of any community in America to fight in World War II. The Mathews Men tells that heroic story through the experiences of one family whose seven sons (and their neighbors), U.S. merchant mariners all, suddenly found themselves squarely in the cross-hairs...
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (171 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In September 1942 at the height of the battle for the Atlantic, a German U-boat torpedoed the RMS Laconia, sinking the British ship without knowing that it carried more than 2,000 passengers, many of them civilians. What followed is a harrowing true story of heroism, heartbreak, and unexpected humanity in the midst of the bloodiest conflict in history.
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Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
v, 256 p. ; illustrations ; 19 cm
Description
During a rehearsal for the D-day landings held in April 1944, a series of fatal blunders led to the deaths of nearly 1000 American servicemen off the Devon coast. This story explains how and why the tragedy happened, and explores the elaborate cover-up that later took place.
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
viii, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
"On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun at Virginia Beach, two massive fireballs erupted just offshore from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. While men, women, and children gaped from the shore, two damaged oil tankers fell out of line and began to sink. Then a small escort warship blew apart in a violent explosion. Navy warships and aircraft peppered the water with depth charges, but to no avail. Within...
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