Smoke and Mirrors (eBook)

Q-Ships Against the U-Boats in the First World War

Deborah Lake (Autor)

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2016
256 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
9780750979078 (ISBN)

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The Q-ship, an ordinary merchant vessel with concealed guns, came into its own during the First World War, when the Royal Navy to trap and destroy German U-boats. Deborah Lake uses a wide range of primary and secondary source material drawn from archives in the UK, Germany and the USA to tell the compelling story of the Q-ships and their U-boat adversaries.
The Q-ship operations themselves will be covered by following the careers of the eight men who won the Victoria Cross on Special Service Operations; and by accounts of German U-boat crews being on the receiving end. No book on Q-ships can avoid the Baralong incident in which a Q-ship's crew allegedly executed the survivors of the German submarine U-27, on 19 August 1915. In a subsequent encounter with U-41, more British atrocities were alleged by the only two German survivors. Revealing extracts from the diary of a Royal Marine who served on board the Baralong are reproduced in the book together with other first-hand accounts. With charge and counter-charge, this incident provides a fascinating story.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.7.2016
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: baralong incident • First World War • german u-boats • Merchant vessel • q ships against the u boats in the first world war • Royal Marine • Royal Navy • special service operations • Submarine • The Great War • u-27 • u-41 • Victoria Cross • World War 1 • World War I • World War One • WW1 • ww1, wwi, world war 1, world war i, world war one, first world war, the great war, q ships against the u boats in the first world war • ww1, wwi, world war 1, world war i, world war one, first world war, the great war, q ships against the u boats in the first world war, merchant vessel, royal navy, german u-boats, special service operations, victoria cross, baralong incident, submarine, u-27, u-41, royal marine • wwi
• ISBN-13: 9780750979078 / 9780750979078