Название: The U-boat Century: German Submarine Warfare 1906-2006
Автор: Jak P. Mallmann Showell
Издательство: Chatham Publishing
ISBN: 1861762410
Год издания: 2006
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 256
Формат: PDF
Размер: 154,7 MB
On a sweltering day in August 1906 U-1, or Unterseeboot 1, meaning underwater boat, was lifted into Kiel s waters for trials; 100 hundred years later Kiel still witnesses the launching of U-boats, modern submarines with fuel cell propulsion systems, built for navies worldwide. In the years in between Germany fought two world wars, in which the U-boat almost defeated the Allies. The U-boat was one of the most potent weapons of the 20th century, and here Mallmann Showell, perhaps the world s leading U-boat historian, explains how it was developed and designed and then deployed to wreak havoc in European waters and further afield in the Atlantic and the Far East.
