Research Catalog

Title

Sea wolves : savage submarine commanders of WW2 / Tony Matthews.

Author

Matthews, Tony, 1949-

Publication

• Barnsley : Pen & Sword Maritime, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Description

xi, 257 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

From the heart-rending account of the sinking of the German liner Wilhelm Gustloff in 1945 the worst maritime disaster in world history through to a variety of other brutal actions carried out by numerous submarine commanders, including the sinking of the hospital ship Centaur in 1943, this book comes from the deep shadows of a tragic past to reveal the terrible truth of a secretive war that was responsible for the deaths of unimaginable numbers of innocent people. Discover how merchant seamen were savagely machine-gunned in the water, callously slaughtered with hand-grenades or simply left to the circling sharks. Elsewhere, hundreds of doctors, nurses, ship's crew, ambulance drivers and hospital orderlies were viciously killed without compassion, despite being protected by the Geneva Convention. Sea Wolves: Savage Submarine Commander of WW2 features true stories of deeply murderous intent that lurked menacingly beneath the waves.

Subject

• Wilhelm Gustloff (Ship)
• 1939-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations, German
• World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations > Submarine
• Military operations, Naval > German
• Military operations, Naval > Submarine
• Sea control

Note

• Includes index

Call Number

JFE 23-1746

ISBN

• 9781399064613
• 1399064614

OCLC

1351695428

Author

Matthews, Tony, 1949- author.

Title

Sea wolves : savage submarine commanders of WW2 / Tony Matthews.

Publisher

Barnsley : Pen & Sword Maritime, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

1939-1945

Research Call Number

JFE 23-1746