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Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 1979. 310 pgs. Illustrated with black and white plates with fold out map. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth with titles present to the spine. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. Previous owner's bookplate present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This is an excellent book on German navy destroyers of WW II. It describes the design and performance characteristics as well as the many sea battles in which they were involved. The travails of their propulsion machinery designs are well described. The evolution of their gun armaments (150 mm and 127 mm) are also described. EB; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 310 pages.
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A. A. Evans (Cartographic artwork), and M. J. Whit. Very good in Very good jacket. 310, [2] pages. Includes Introduction. The book also contains a bibliography and an Index, as well as 14 maps, 16 pages of photographs, and 15 line drawings. The Table of Contents includes: PART 1. DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION: 1. ) The prewar destroyers--2. ) The war-built destroyers--3. ) Torpedo boats--4. ) Armament-----------PART 2. OPERATIONS: 5. ) Before the storm--6. ) North Sea offensive--7. ) Wikinger and Weserü bung--8. ) Challenge in the Channel--9. ) The freezing North--10. ) Arctic adventure--11. ) Finale in France--12. ) Norwegian swansong--13. ) Eclipse--14. ) Peace----------PART 3. APPENDICES: A. ) Technical data: destroyers--B. ) Technical data: torpedo boats--C. ) Construction and career notes: destroyers--D. ) Construction and career notes: torpedo-boats--E. ) Destroyer and torpedo boat armament--F. ) Boiler systems--G. ) Minelaying operations. Michael J Whitley (or Mike J Whitley) was a naval historian with a particular interest in the Kriegsmarine, who wrote and maintained several reference works on warships. Whitley died in a diving accident in 2000. German destroyers were, without exception, large and heavily armed vessels, but they did not achieve their designers' aims during their wartime service for a number of reasons, both technical and strategical. After 1940, following the crippling losses at Narvak (for which German destroyers are chiefly remembered) and with the Royal Navy in control of the exits to the North Sea, their operational scope was limited; nevertheless, in the early war years, some singular and generally unknown successes were achieved. Equipped with a new and relatively untried high-pressure power plant, the ships quickly found that war was was not conducive to the successful solution of teething problems, with the result that long periods under repair were often necessary. At the outbreak of the Second World War Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine had 21 destroyers in service, while another one was just being completed. These 22 vessels-comprising 3 classes (Type 34, 34A and 36)-had all been built in the 1930s, making them modern vessels (no destroyers remained in German hands following the close of the First World War). Including that final pre-war vessel, a further 19 were brought into service during the war and more were captured from opposing navies, including the Italian Navy (Regia Marina) after the Italian Armistice with the Allies in 1943. German destroyer classes were generally known by the year of their design. Because of their size, use and weaponry, some vessels classified as "fleet torpedo boats", Flottentorpedoboot, are also described. [1] During World War II, destroyers were administratively grouped into one of several destroyer flotillas. Class general characteristics are taken from the first of each class, and may differ slightly for individual ships, particularly when they were refitted. Post-war, some surviving ships had significant changes to armament.
