Research Catalog

Title

The hunter hunted : submarine versus submarine encounters from earliest days to the Cold War / Robert C. Stern.

Author

Stern, Robert C. (Robert Cecil), 1946-

Publication

London : Chatham, 2007.

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Details

Description

vi, 248 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"Submariners say that at sea there are only two sorts of vessels: submarines and targets; and, indeed, from their inception submarines have been hunters, elusive and difficult to counter. That they should be deployed against their own sort was inevitable and this new book chronicles the most significant of those clashes, from primitive beginnings to the dangerous high-tech, cat-and-mouse games of the Cold War made familiar in movies like Hunt for Red October"--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Submarine combat

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. First blood -- U-27 and HMS/M E.3, and the 'Baralong affair' -- Ch. 2. Fratricide I -- U-7 and U-22 -- Ch. 3. U-boat traps -- HMS Taranaki, HMS/M C.24 and U-40 -- Ch. 4. Almost an ace -- Heino von Heimburg -- Ch. 5. The sound of torpedoes? -- Ch. 6. The first 'Cold War' -- U-34 and C-3 -- Ch. 7. First shots of a long war -- ORP Sep, U-14 and HMS/M spearfish -- Ch. 8. Fratricide II -- HMS/M Triton and HMS/M Oxley -- Ch. 9. Tit for Tat -- HMS/M Thistle and U-4 -- Ch. 10. This war was anything but phoney -- Doris and U-9 -- Ch. 11. What did ORP wilk hit? -- Ch. 12. One busy week -- 29 July to 3 August 1940 -- Ch. 13. Fratricide III (and more) -- R.SMG Gemma and R.SMG Tricheco; HMS/M Upholder and R.SMG Ammiraglio Saint Bon -- Ch. 14. The gunfighters -- HMS/M Triad and R.SMG Enrico Toti -- Ch. 15. Trouble in paradise -- HMS/M Clyde, U-67, U-68 and U-111 -- Ch. 16. East of gibraltar -- O 21 and U-95 -- Ch. 17. In the narrow sea -- HMS/M unbeaten, U-374 and R.SMG Guglielmotti -- Ch. 18. Fratricide IV -- U-254 and U-221 -- Ch. 19. The only American loss -- USS Corvina and I-176 -- Ch. 20. Sister act -- K XVI, K XVIII, I-66 (I-166), HMS/M Telemachus and HMS/M Taciturn -- Ch. 21. Battle at Periscope depth -- HMS/M Venturer, U-771 and U-864 -- Ch. 22. One magnificent patrol -- USS Batfish and two (or maybe three) Japanese submarines -- Ch. 23. Nearly another fratricide -- USS Hoe and Flounder (and U-53 7 too) -- Ch. 24. The last 'official' kills -- USS Besugo and U-183; USS Spikefish and I-373 -- Ch. 25. War by another name -- submarine encounters since the Second World War -- App. Gun calibres.

ISBN

• 1861762658 (hbk.)
• 9781861762658 (hbk.)

OCLC

73957267

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library