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65 GERMAN NAVY: WORLD WAR II • OTHER NAVIES Aircraft Carrier Graf Zeppelin Siegfried Breyer. Rare look at the WWII Kriegsmarine’s only aircraft carrier of WWII. Size: 8.5"x11" • 100 bw photos • 48pp. ISBN: 978-0-88740-242-5 • soft • $14.99 Dönitz’s Crews: Germany’s U-boat Sailors in WWII French L. MacLean. With dozens of historical documents and over 400 photographs, the author presents a comprehensive history of U-boat crews and the undersea war duringWWII. Size: 8.5"x11" • 400 color/bw photos • 336pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-3356-9 • hard • $69.99 German U-boat Type XXI Siegfried Breyer. Detailed look at the Kriegsmarine’s late-WWII U-boat and its postwar influence. Size: 8.5"x11" • 100 bw photos • 48pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-0787-4 • soft • $14.99 German U-boat Bunkers Karl-Heinz and Michael Schmeelke. Detailed look at the German U-boat bases in Brest, Bordeaux, La Pallice, Lori- ent, St. Nazaire, Bruges, Bergen and Trondheim during WWII. Size: 8.5"x11" • 100 bw photos • 48pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-0786-7 • soft • $9.99 German Combat Divers in WWII Michael Jung. Complete history of the German combat divers in WWII. Covers military diving, the development of technical equipment, the establishment and organization of the German combat diver units, and their use in sabotage operations. Also, the completely unknown story of the creation of the “Sea Commando Battalion Brandenburg” and the navy’s Combat Diver Training Detachment 700. Size: 6”x9” • 50 bw photos • 144pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-3092-6 • hard • $35.00 OTHER NAVIES Soviet Combat Divers in World War II Pavel Borovikov. This book is a rare look at Soviet combat divers from the 1930s up to the end of World War II. The training of divers during the war years as well as their operational combat use from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, is also presented in concise detail. Size: 6"x9" • 107 b/w images • 192pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-5190-7 • hard cover • $34.99 The German U-boat Base at Lorient, France, Vol.1: June 1940-June 1941 Luc Braeuer. This first volume (of a four volume series) on the German U-boats at Lorient, France, covers the period from June 1940 to June 1941, and reveals the evacuation of the port by the French navy and the subsequent takeover by the Kriegsmarine. Size: 9"x12" • 621 color & bw photos • 176pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-4830-3 • hard • $45.00 The German U-boat Base at Lorient, France, Vol. 2: July 1941-July 1942 Luc Braeuer. This second volume (of a four volume series) on the German U-boats at Lorient, France, covers the period from July 1941 to July 1942, and explains the major phases in the Battle of the Atlantic in which U-boats were operating. Size: 9"x12" • 547 color & bw photos • 176pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-4831-0 • hard • $45.00 The German U-boat Base at Lorient France: August 1942-August 1943: Vol. 3 Luc Braeuer. Volume three (of a four volume series) reveals the fate of the 92 German U-boats that passed through Lorient from August 1942 to August 1943. From October 1942, Type IX U-boats left Lorient for distant seas beyond the South African Cape. Size: 9" x 12"•624 color andb/w images •176pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-4832-7 • hard cover • $45.00 The German Navy at War: Vol. 1 The Battleships Breyer/Koop. Covers all of the main German battleships of WWII, including Bismarck, Gneisenau, Scharnhorst, Tirpitz and other big ships in over 300 photos. Size: 8.5"x11" • 300 bw photos • 192pp. ISBN: 0-88740-220-8 • hard • $49.95 The Battleship Bismarck Elfrath/Her- zog. The detailed history of this great battleship is presented here. Many never before published photos chart its most infamous history. Size: 11"x8.5" • 200 bw photos • 160pp. ISBN: 0-88740-221-6 • hard • $34.95 Pocket Battleship Admiral Graf Spee Siegfried Breyer. Short, illustrated history of the WWII German ship’s entire combat career. Size: 8.5"x11" • 100 bw photos • 48pp. ISBN: 978-0-88740-183-1 • soft • $14.99 Soviet and Russian Nuclear Submarines Wilfried Kopenhagen. Concise history covering the Soviet and Russian nuclear submarine program from the 1950s-1990s. Size: 8.5"x11" • 70 color/bw photos • 40pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1316-9 • soft • $9.95 Fubuki-Class Destroyers: In the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II Hans Lengerer & Lars Ahlberg. Presented here is the history of the Japanese Fubuki-class destroyers, relying primarily on original Japanese war-era source material, including numerous schemes and photos. Size: 9”x9” • 150 images • 128pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-6287-3 • hard • $19.99 Kongo¯ -Class Battleships: In the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II. LarsAhlberg & Hans Lengerer. The four Kongoˉ -class ships were the most active among the 12WWII-era Japanese battleships and saw heavy combat throughout the war in suchmajor campaigns as Pearl Harbor,Midway, Guadalcanal, and Leyte.All four ships were sunk by Allied forces by war’s end. Size: 9”x9” • 150 photos • 128pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-6167-8 • hard • $24.99 So¯ ryu¯ -, Hiryu¯ -, andUnryu¯ -ClassAircraftCar- riers: In the Imperial JapaneseNavyduring WorldWar II. LarsAhlberg&HansLengerer.Thisbook covers thedesignandconstructionof thetwowell-known Soˉryuˉ and Hiryuˉ carriers,and the lesser-known ships of the Unryuˉ class,and relies on original Japanese source material, including numerous photos, drawings, and specifications. How and why the Japanese designed and constructed theseWWII-era aircraft carriers, and how they were operated, is covered in detail. Size: 9”x9” • 145 photos • 128pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-6077-0 • hard • $24.99 \ Japanese Admirals 1926-1945 Richard Fuller. Over 1400serving JapaneseAdmirals (FlagOfficers) from 1926-45 reign are included in this work. The book concentrates on the service histories of those officersactiveduringthe1936-45periodof Japanese expansionandmilitary actions inManchuria, China, the Far East and the Pacific. This is an essential reference for any historian, student or collector interested in the IJN during this period. Size: 8.5"x11" • 140 bw photos • 400pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-3952-3 • hard • $79.99 Navies of the Napoleonic Era Digby Smith. This book falls into three parts: Part 1: The Ships and the Men describes ship construction, rigging, sail plans and rating system, life at sea, naval tactics; Part 2: The Engagements; Part Three: The National Navies gives the strength of fleets at various times, the organization and training of individual navies, and also detailed descriptions of the uniforms worn at different periods. Size: 6"x9" • 60 bw images • 272pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1988-4 • hard • $39.95