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The listeners : U-boat hunters during the Great War
- Title
- The listeners : U-boat hunters during the Great War / Roy R. Manstan.
- Author
- Manstan, Roy R.
- Publication
- Middletown CT : Wesleyan University Press, [2018]
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Details
- Description
- xii, 336 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Tells the story of the emergence of the submarine in 1914, its impact on warfare, and the efforts to combat it."--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Garnet books
- Uniform Title
- Garnet books.
- Alternative Title
- U-boat hunters during the Great War
- Subjects
- Anti-submarine warfare
- Submarines (Ships)
- Hydrophone
- United States Naval Engineering Experiment Station History
- World War (1914-1918)
- Military operations, Aerial
- World War, 1914-1918 > Connecticut > New London
- United States Naval Engineering Experiment Station
- World War, 1914-1918 > Aerial operations
- United States
- Hydrophone > History > 20th century
- Anti-submarine warfare > United States > History > 20th century
- Military operations, Naval > Submarine
- Submarines (Ships) > Germany > History > 20th century
- Connecticut > New London
- Atlantic Ocean
- 1900-1999
- World War, 1914-1918 > Campaigns > Atlantic Ocean
- History
- Germany
- Military campaigns
- World War, 1914-1918 > Naval operations > Submarine
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Preface: Submarine warfare: its genesis in Connecticut -- Introduction: The war to end all wars -- Part 1. 1914-1916 -- Predator and prey -- The Firth of Forth -- Sighs of a lovesick mermaid -- Hunting submarines from shore -- A game of hide and seek -- Lusitania -- America awakens -- Preparing for the inevitable -- Part 2. 1917 -- America enters the war -- Crossing the Atlantic -- The first tentative steps -- Physics pure and simple -- A sound detector of exceeding delicacy -- From the laboratory to sea -- Matters of life and death -- A "probable" first kill -- Part 3. 1918 -- Coldest winter on record -- The Naval Reserve Flying Corps -- Listeners in the sky -- The crazy American; U-boats beware -- Invisible light and other magic -- U-boats westward to America -- America eastward to the war -- Listeners at the front and armistice -- Epilogue: the war that did not end all wars.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-8009
- ISBN
- 9780819578358
- 0819578355
- LCCN
- 2018017912
- OCLC
- 1030394911
- Author
- Manstan, Roy R., author.
- Title
- The listeners : U-boat hunters during the Great War / Roy R. Manstan.
- Publisher
- Middletown CT : Wesleyan University Press, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Garnet booksGarnet books.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- Online version: Manstan, Roy R., author. Listeners Middletown CT : Wesleyan University Press, [2018] 9780819578372 (DLC) 2018020180
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-8009