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  • EAGLES OVER THE SEA, 1943–45
    LAWRENCE PATERSON
    This is the second volume of Lawrence Paterson’s detailed account of all the Luftwaffe’s naval operations during World War II. The first volume took the story up to 1942, and by the end of that year Hermann Göring’s Reich Air Ministry had subsumed nearly every aspect of Wehrmacht maritime aviation. Kriegsmarine attempts to develop an independent Fleet Air Arm had been perpetual...

    $216.99

  • OTTO KRETSCHMER
    LAWRENCE PATERSON
    Otto Kretschmer was only in combat from September 1939 until March 1941 but was Germany's highest-scoring U-boat commander sinking 47 ships totaling 274,333 tons. This definitive work details his personal story and the political backdrop from his earliest days. Aged 17 he spent 8 months studying literature at Exeter University where he learned to speak English fluently. The fol...

    $383.99

  • SCHNELLBOOTE
    LAWRENCE PATERSON
    "A detailed account of the fast patrol boats built and used by the Kriegsmarine during WWII . . . a book for every naval history enthusiast."— Firetrench   The Kriegsmarine's Schnellboote—fast attack boats or S-boats to the Allies—were the primary German naval attack units in coastal waters throughout the Second World War.   Operating close to their various bases they became a ...

    $329.00

  • U-BOAT WAR PATROL
    LAWRENCE PATERSON
    "[A] book of rare photographs . . . detailing life aboard a German Second World War submarine" from the author of Operation Colossus ( History Today). This unique account charts the complete story of a single U-boat patrol through the summer of 1942 based around a remarkable collection of photographs that were "liberated" from a concrete U-boat pen in Brest at the end of the wa...

    $200.00

  • SECOND U-BOAT FLOTILLA
    LAWRENCE PATERSON
    Fritz-Julius Lemp's tragic sinking of the Athenia in a Second U-Boat Flotilla boat opened Germany's U-boat war against England. The following six years of bitter combat found the flotilla at the forefront of distant operations. Leading the attack, Legendary commanders such as Albrecht Achilles, Werner Hartenstein and Reinhard Hardegen littered the Atlantic and Indian Oceans wit...

    $119.00

  • FALLSCHIRM-PANZER-DIVISION 'HERMANN GÖRING’
    LAWRENCE PATERSON
    A history of the development and role during World War II of the private army of the Nazi Luftwaffe’s commander-in-chief. In the early years of the Third Reich, Hermann Göring, one of the most notorious leaders of the Third Reich, worked to establish his own personal army to rival Himmler’s SS and Reichswehr. The result: a private Prussian police force which grew into one of th...

    $229.00

  • WEAPONS OF DESPERATION
    LAWRENCE PATERSON
    As the Third Reich headed for destruction, German ingenuity in the naval field turned to unconventional weapons – midget submarines, radio-controlled explosive boats, and various forms of underwater sabotage. This is one of the last un-chronicled areas of World War II naval history and this well-known author describes how, facing overwhelming odds, German sailors – most of them...

    $229.00

  • EAGLES OVER THE SEA
    LAWRENCE PATERSON
    The arduous development of a dedicated naval air arm for Germany’s resurgent military was fraught with the kind of fierce inter-service rivalry that was rife throughout the turbulent history of the Third Reich. However, almost despite the odds, a small dedicated maritime strike force was assembled, germinating during the Spanish Civil War before being committed to action from t...

    $229.00

  • OPERATION COLOSSUS
    LAWRENCE PATERSON
    “Provides an excellent overview of the development of parachute troops as well as an exciting battle narrative and gripping human interest story.” —Argunners Magazine Formed by a collection of free-thinking army and air force officers, the fledgling British paratrooper unit, known as the “SAS,” deployed trial and error in terms of tactics and equipment before an elite few were ...

    $229.00

  • SCHNELLBOOTE
    LAWRENCE PATERSON
    “A detailed account of the fast patrol boats built and used by the Kriegsmarine during WWII . . . a book for every naval history enthusiast.”—Firetrench   The Kriegsmarine’s Schnellboote—fast attack boats or S-boats to the Allies—were the primary German naval attack units in coastal waters throughout the Second World War.   Operating close to their various bases they became a d...

    $329.00

  • BLACK FLAG
    LAWRENCE PATERSON
    On the eve of Germany's surrender in May 1945, Grossadmiral Karl Dnitz commanded thousands of loyal and active men of the U-boat service. Still fully armed and unbroken in morale, enclaves of these men occupied bases stretching from Norway to France, where cadres of U-boat men fought on in ports that defied besieging Allied troops to the last. At sea U-boats still operated on a...

    $329.00

  • DÖNITZ'S LAST GAMBLE
    LAWRENCE PATERSON
    "The tragic final year of Hitler's once highly effective U-Boat campaign against Allied shipping is graphically and grippingly told here." —Work Boat World  By the end of 1943 the German submarine war on Atlantic convoys was all but defeated, beaten by superior technology, code-breaking and air power. With losses mounting, Karl Dönitz withdrew the wolfpacks, but in a surprise c...

    $274.00

  • FIRST U-BOAT FLOTILLA
    LAWRENCE PATERSON
    Lawrence Paterson is an author and historian. ...

    $164.00