The German Submarine War 1914-1918Periscope Publishing Ltd., 2002 - 438 pages This account of the U-boat campaign in the World War I represents the official British history of the war against the German submarine attack on shipping. From a few fragile craft, the U-boats grew to become the greatest menace to Britain's survival. |
Contents
CRUISER WAR RESUMED October 1916February | 113 |
REAPING THE WHIRLWIND | 123 |
THE CRISIS FebruaryApril 1917 | 137 |
THE MEDITERRANEAN FREED JanuaryNovember | 262 |
DOWNFALL AND NOT WORLD POWER January | 282 |
SURRENDER | 329 |
AL GERMAN SUBMARINE CONSTRUCTION AND LOSSES | 351 |
IV | 383 |
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Admiral Adriatic Allied American amongst anti-submarine April armed Atlantic attack August Austrian barrage battleship bows British ships British submarine campaign Cape Cattaro Channel coast command convoy craft crew cruise damaged days later December decoy depth-charges destroyed destroyers dived Dover Straits drifters enemy escort explosion Fastnet February fire Flanders flotillas force French Gayer German submarines Gibraltar Grand Fleet gunfire Heligoland Hersing High Sea Fleet Horns Reef hospital-ship hull hydrophones Italian January July June laid liner lives loss lost March marines Mediterranean merchant-ships Michelsen miles N.W. mine-field mine-layers mines month naval Navy nets neutral North Sea Northern Barrage November October officers ordered Otranto passed patrols periscope Pola port raid raiders rammed sail sank Scheer sent September shelled sighted sinking sloop Spiess Squadron steamer submarine success sunk surface tons torpedo Tory Island trawlers troops troopship U-boats under-water vessels victim waters Weddigen whilst Zeebrugge