Research Catalog

Title

The hunters and the hunted / Jochen Brennecke ; translated by R.H. Stevens.

Author

Brennecke, Jochen.

Publication

Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, [2003].

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Details

Description

320 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Bluejacket books

Uniform Title

• Bluejacket books.
• Jäger-Gejagte!. English

Alternative Title

Jäger-Gejagte!.

Subject

• World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations, German
• World War, 1939-1945 > Submarine

Note

• Originally published: New York : Norton, 1958.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. 1. 1939. Battleships or u-boats? -- Unexpected success -- pt. 2. 1940. Mining exploits, silent heroism -- Operation Weseruebung -- The u-boat and its unwritten laws -- pt. 3. 1941. Otto Kretschmer and Guenther Prien -- Muetzelburg and Lueth, u-boat aces -- U-74 and the tragedy of the Bismarck -- The Hessler convoy and the betrayal of the St. Antoa rendezvous -- U-81 sinks an air squadron. U-331 destroys the battleship Barham -- New British defensive tactics -- The drama of the u-boats and Atlantis -- pt. 4. 1942. War with U.S.A. -- In the Caribbean, dynamite -- More inexperienced Americans -- U-134 out of the fridge into the oven -- Laconia -- The experiments of Helmuth Walter -- Another "Paukenschlag" off Cape Town -- pt. 5. 1943. The break-up of the u-boat force -- Dysentery aboard! -- "Dr. Fug" : Dr. Cauer, professor of chemistry -- How Brandi, the cruiser king, lost his u-boat -- U-boats in far eastern waters -- U-792, the wonder u-boat -- A sombre prospect -- pt. 6. 1944. Doenitz and the Walter u-boats -- Emergency in the Indian Ocean too -- Escape from 200 feet below the surface. U-763 in Portsmouth Harbour -- A lame u-boat flees from Bordeaux -- A petty officer saves U-178 -- Alongside a British destroyer in the Arctic -- pt. 7. 1945. New equipment for old and new u-boats -- Chivalrous to the bitter end -- The u-boats surrender -- Where is professor Walter? Where are the German wonder u-boats?

ISBN

1591140919 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003050120

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library