2007-09-08 09:28:23 · 8 answers · asked by UFO^pilot 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
"The Cruel Sea"
Excellent book about life on a convoy escort during the battle of the atlantic in world war two.
2007-09-08 09:34:44 · answer #1 · answered by rohak1212 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Books and Journals Online
There is a growing list of historical journals that may be read online:
Canadian Military Journal
International Journal of Naval History
Naval War College Review
A few complete volumes may be read via your web browser (all external links):
Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge: Seapower and Other Studies
von Hase's The Battle of the Skagerrak (in English)
Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Jellicoe:
The Grand Fleet
The Crisis of the Naval War
Geoffrey Miller's The Millstone: British Naval Policy in the Mediterranean, 1900-1914, the Commitment to France and British Intervention in the War
Pearl Harbor Revisited: United States Navy Communications Intelligence 1924-1941, by Frederick D. Parker, an external link to the US Navy's Naval Historical Center.
An (English) version of Admiral Scheer's Germany's High Seas Fleet in the World War.
http://www.gwpda.org/naval/b1000000.htm
You may be able to buy these too. Hope this helps.
2007-09-09 12:06:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
HMS Ulysses by Alistair Maclean
Great story of the North Sea convoys. Weather so cold your bare skin would stick to metal and anyone in the water for more than 4 minutes had had it.
2007-09-09 04:36:49 · answer #3 · answered by felineroche 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Cruel Sea by Nicolas Montsarrat is an acknowledged classic
2007-09-08 16:36:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The Boat" by Lothar-Guenther Buchheim , probably the best book ever on submarine warfare , made into a TV series and a film .
"H.M.S.Ulysses" by Alistair Maclean , about a convoy to Russia - excellent .
2007-09-08 16:38:50 · answer #5 · answered by Hippie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Farewell to Arms & The Sun Also Rises ( Hamingway)
2007-09-08 16:38:18 · answer #6 · answered by mohammadnaima 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything by Douglas Reeman.
2007-09-08 16:36:38 · answer #7 · answered by Jellicoe 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"The Blooding of the Guns" WWI battle of Jutland.
2007-09-08 23:00:13 · answer #8 · answered by Lyle G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋