Into thin air and Sebastian Junger's The perfect storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mysteryand make history themselves. For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents, braving depths that induced hallucinatory effects, navigating through wreckage as perilous as a minefield, they pushed...

The passenger-liner Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-boat, one of many throughout the Atlantic at the time. Over 1,200 people perished in this attack, including citizens from the then neutral United States. Many questions, however, still remain: was the liner armed? Was it carrying contraband munitions in a secret effort to aid the Allies? Did the Germans set out from the start to sink the ship? Was it deliberately allowed to be sunk (by the...

The Kaiser's Pirates is a dramatic and little-known story of World War I, when the actions of a few men shaped the fate of nations. By1914 Germany had ships and sailors scattered across the globe, protecting its overseas colonies and "showing the flag" of its new Imperial Navy. After war broke out on August 4 there was no hope that they could reach home. Instead, they were ordered to attack Britain's vital trade routes for as long as possible. Under...

"A true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII."--

On 17 September 1942 Admiral Karl Donitz, C-in-C U-boats, issued the following directive:To all Commanders - 'All attempts to rescue members of ships sunk, therefore also fishing out swimmers and putting them into lifeboats, righting capsized lifeboats, handing out provisions and water, have to cease. Rescue contradicts the most fundamental demands of war for the annihilation of enemy ships and crews'.This order ended what had hitherto been a war...

The final days of Germany's greatest battleship illuminates the strategic implications and dramatic battles surrounding the "Tirpitz," a ship that may have had greater influence on the course of World War II than her more famous sister, the "Bismarck."

The author of Blitzkrieg covers one of the most dramatic events of the Second World War in an "outstanding book about naval warfare" (World War II History). When the German battleship Bismarck-a masterpiece of engineering, well-armored with a main artillery of eight 15-inch guns-left the port of Gotenhafen for her first operation on the night of May 18, 1941, the British battlecruiser Hood and the new battleship Prince of Wales were ordered to find...

"A remarkable true WWII account of the maritime attack on the RMS Laconia off the West African coast"--

"This is the gripping account of the epic hunt for Hitler's most terrifying battleship - the legendary Tirpitz - and the brave men who risked their lives to attack and destroy this most potent symbol of the Nazis' fearsome war machine."-- Jacket flap.

This is the third of three volumes describing U-boat operations in the Atlantic during the Second World War. This is the fascinating account, as told from the German perspective, of the Battle of the Atlantic, the longest-running, continuous military campaign in World War II, spanning from 1939 through to Germany's defeat in 1945. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, which was announced the day after the declaration of war, although...