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Greyhounds of the Sea
Author | : Carl C. Cutler |
Publisher | : Annapolis : United States Naval Institute |
Total Pages | : 682 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Clipper ships |
ISBN | : |
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Greyhounds of the Sea
Author | : Carl C. Cutler |
Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Tin Cans and Greyhounds
Author | : Clint Johnson |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2019-02-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1621577678 |
For men on destroyer-class warships during World War I and World War II, battles were waged “against overwhelming odds from which survival could not be expected.” Those were the words Lieutenant Commander Robert Copeland calmly told his crew as their tiny, unarmored destroyer escort rushed toward giant, armored Japanese battleships at the Battle off Samar on October 25, 1944. This action-packed narrative history of destroyer-class ships brings readers inside the half-inch-thick hulls to meet the men who fired the ships' guns, torpedoes, hedgehogs, and depth charges. Nicknamed "tin cans" or "greyhounds," destroyers were fast escort and attack ships that proved indispensable to America's military victories. Beginning with destroyers' first incarnation as torpedo boats in 1874 and ending with World War II, author Clint Johnson shares the riveting stories of the Destroyer Men who fought from inside a "tin can"—risking death by cannons, bombs, torpedoes, fire, and drowning. The British invented destroyers, the Japanese improved them, and the Germans failed miserably with them. It was the Americans who perfected destroyers as the best fighting ship in two world wars. Tin Cans & Greyhounds compares the designs of these countries with focus on the old, modified World War I destroyers, and the new and numerous World War II destroyers of the United States. Tin Cans & Greyhounds details how destroyers fought submarines, escorted convoys, rescued sailors and airmen, downed aircraft, shelled beaches, and attacked armored battleships and cruisers with nothing more than a half-inch of steel separating their crews from the dark waves.
Greyhounds of the Sea
Author | : Carl C. Cutler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Clipper ships |
ISBN | : |
Greyhound (Movie Tie-In)
Author | : C. S. Forester |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2020-07-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0525505946 |
Soon to be the major motion picture Greyhound, a WWII naval thriller of "high and glittering excitement" (New York Times) from the author of the legendary Hornblower series The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way across the icy North Atlantic from America to England. There, they will deliver desperately needed supplies, but only if they can make it through the wolfpack of German submarines that awaits and outnumbers them in the perilous seas. For forty eight hours, Krause will play a desperate cat and mouse game against the submarines, combating exhaustion, hunger, and thirst to protect fifty million dollars' worth of cargo and the lives of three thousand men. Originally published as The Good Shepherd and acclaimed as one of the best novels of the year upon publication in 1955, this novel is a riveting classic of WWII and naval warfare from one of the 20th century's masters of sea stories.
The Clipper Ship Era
Author | : Arthur Hamilton Clark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Clipper ships |
ISBN | : |