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Starting weeks after Hitler declared war on the United States in
mid-December 1941 and lasting until the war with Germany was all
but over, 73 German U-Boats sustainably attacked New England
waters, from Montauk New York to the tip of Nova Scotia at Cape
Sable. Fifteen percent of these boats were sunk by Allied
counter-attacks, five surrendered in the region, and three were
sunk off New England--Block Island, Massachusetts Bay, and off
Nantucket. These have proven appealing to divers, with a result
that at least three German naval officers or ratings are buried in
New England, one having killed himself in the Boston jail cell.
There were 34 Allied merchant or naval ships sunk by these subs,
one of them, the 'Eagle', was not admitted to have been sunk by the
Germans until decades later. Over 1,100 men were thrown in the
water and 545 of them made it ashore in New England ports; 428 were
killed. Importantly, saboteurs were landed three places: Long
Island, Frenchman's Bay Maine and New Brunswick Canada, and Boston
was mined. Very little was known about this.
For the first time, a book exposes an obscure theatre of the First
World War in great detail and comprehensively, not just in terms of
geography but also from the perspectives of both Allied and Axis
participants. 'U-Boats off Bermuda' provides details of specific
U-Boat patrols and their commanders, as well as a general overview
of the situation in the theatre of war around Bermuda. It is a
detailed analysis of individual casualties, broken down by a)
background of ship, b) background of U-boat, c) attack method
(surface and/or submersed), d) details of survivors and their
plight at sea and e) their rescue, recuperation and
repatriation.Detailed maps and illustrations provide a human face
to what were often tragic attacks with fatal consequences. Did you
know that half a dozen German submarines came close enough to the
Naval Operating Base in Bermuda to see Gibbs Hill? Or that hardy
Canadians from a sunken trading schooner rowed and sailed their way
to the remote island-on their own? Allied pilots based in Bermuda
sank two German U-Boats, rescued dozens in daring water landings,
and several crashed.
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Bahama Tales (Paperback)
Eric Wiberg; Edited by James D Moudy; Wm Johnson Jr
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R666
Discovery Miles 6 660
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Round the World in the Wrong Season, by Eric T. Wiberg - Written
between 1994 and 2009, is a memoir of global travel and an
unfulfilled college crush. The book follows the narrator out of
school and across the Pacific. At only 23 he has command of a
68-foot Burmese-teak ketch built in Scotland thrust upon him. The
owner is on a voyage home to his death, and along the way they hire
sailors twice the skipper's age. They makes it to New Zealand in a
storm which sinks seven yachts, then spends months shearing sheep
and writing a memoir. By the time the narrator makes a rendezvous
with his college sweetheart (who has been teaching Thai students on
the Burmese border), she seems to have all but forgotten him. This
leads to a less than satisfactory denouement and puts at least one
of them in the hospital. The book includes extensive photographs
and hand-drawn charts and a detailed bibliography. It is over 400
pages in length, perfect bound in cloth. More www.wrongseason.net
and www.ericwiberg.com
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