The Gathering Storm: The Naval War in Northern Europe September 1939 - April 1940Seaforth Publishing, 2013. szept. 24. - 550 oldal The term 'the phony war' is often applied to the first months of the Second World War, a term suggesting inaction or passivity. That may have been the perception of the war on land, but at sea it was very different. This new book is a superb survey of the fierce naval struggles, from 1939 up to the invasion of the Norway in April 1940.??The author begins the book with the sinking of the German fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919 and then covers the rebuilding of the Kriegsmarine and parallel developments in the Royal Navy, and summarises relevant advances in European navies. The main part of the book then describes the actions at sea starting with the fall of Poland. There is a complex, intertwined narrative that follows. The sinking of Courageous, the German mining of the British East Coast, the Northern Patrol, the sinking of Rawalpindi, small ship operations in the North Sea and German Bight, the Altmark incident are all covered. Further afield the author deals with the German surface raiders and looks at the early stages of the submarine war in the Atlantic.??As with his previous books, Geirr Haarr has researched extensively in German, British, and other archives, and the work is intended to paint a balanced and detailed picture of this significant period of the war when the opposing naval forces were adapting to a form of naval warfare quite different to that experienced in WWI. |
Tartalomjegyzék
Introduction | 1 |
The Allied Navies | 2 |
The German Navy | 16 |
Baltic Eagles | 40 |
What Now? | 56 |
German Home Waters | 71 |
Sinking the Athenia | 78 |
Contact Obtained | 87 |
Commerce Raiders | 244 |
Mine Warfare | 255 |
Night Stalkers | 281 |
The Northern Patrol | 296 |
Winter War | 318 |
No Friends | 328 |
The Altmark Incident | 352 |
Crossroads | 390 |
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Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
Admiralty aircraft Allied Altmark Asdic Atlantic attack Author’s collection B-Dienst BA-RM Baltic battleships Bergen bombs Britain British capital ships Captain carrier casualties Churchill coast coastal convoy crew cruisers damage Danish deck depth-charges Destroyer-laid minefield destroyers Deutschland Dönitz escort explosion fire Flotilla force freighter French German ships gunfire guns heading Hitler Home Fleet intercepted Jøssingfjord Kapitän Kapitän zur Kapitänleutnant killed knots Kriegsmarine KTB SKL laid later Lieutenant Commander Luftwaffe merchant ships miles mine-laying minelayers mines minesweepers NA-ADM NA-FO Narvik naval neutral night North Sea Northern Patrol Norway Norwegian Norwegian territorial October officers Operation Weserübung operations ordered port position Prien radio Raeder reconnaissance reported rescued Rosyth Royal Navy Scapa Flow Schultze September sighted signal sinking Skagerrak speed Squadron starboard submarine sunk surface survivors Swedish tanker territorial waters tons torpedo boats Torpedoed without warning trawlers U-boat vessels warships weather Weserübung Wilhelmshaven yards Zerstörer