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#63613 - 11/21/05 01:34 PM Book recommendations please: WW2 naval history  
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I would like to buy a book (or two) to try to get a basic understanding of the naval dimension of WW2. There are a few books out there so which do you recommend?

Also, as someone almost completely new to navel history and the associated terminology, any recommendations for books which are a good introduction to naval history in general?

So far my naval library consists of:
-ECLIPSE OF THE BIG GUN : The Warship 1906-1945 (Conway's History of the Ship Series)
-a bunch of U-boat books
-GERMAN S-BOOTE AT WAR : 1939-1945

Any advice will be appreciated.
Uberweng


In the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, and the Atlantic we remember the multitude of resentful sleeping warriors; in our ears we hear the whisper of the "voices from the bottom of the sea."
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#63614 - 11/21/05 06:59 PM Re: Book recommendations please: WW2 naval history  
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From the u-boat prespective you cannot go past Karl Doenitz's memoirs titles, "Memoirs Ten Years & Twenty Days". The ten years & twenty days refers to how long he was imprisoned for after the war.

Memoirs by - Dönitz, Karl Ten Years and Twenty Days
ISBN 0306807645
519 pages, 18 b&w photos

This book is one of the few books that will allow you to understand the German U-boat war as it was faught from the German side.

The Guardian I think best says it...
"The most distinguished of recent reminiscences on either the Allied or the German side. The author displays a powerful capacity of sustained concentration.

He writes with detachment and facility; he is both fair to his colleagues and his enemies, and possesses an effortless mastery of detail. He is, for a German officer, unusually honest in describing his relations with Hitler; and there is a refreshing lack of cant and fraud in his handling of the thorny problems of submarine warfare”

For me, this was one of those books that was impossible to put down.


I have heard great things of 'The War at Sea 1939-1945' by Captain S.W. Roskill DSC, RN. Now there are a few titles of simular name.

This is a 4 volume set!

I have this book, as I do the 1st and 2nd flotillas, for the last 6 months without having time to read them.


Cheers,

Teddy Bär

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#63615 - 11/22/05 03:57 PM Re: Book recommendations please: WW2 naval history  
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Thanks Teddy Bär,
I will pick up a copy of Ten Years and Twenty days,
it sounds excellent. By chance I just got a cheap copy of another book by Captain S.W. Roskill DSC, RN called "CONVOY". I checked the set you recommeded and it looks good but its a few hundered bucks for the set so I might have to wait until the bank balance is a little healthier.

Uberweng


In the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, and the Atlantic we remember the multitude of resentful sleeping warriors; in our ears we hear the whisper of the "voices from the bottom of the sea."
-Commander Mochitsura Hashimoto, IJN, 16 August 1945

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