2002. The story of the Kursk submarine disaster and the recovery of the vessel from the Barents Sea floor.
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1952. The story of Commander Young, his patrols during the war, his escape from a sunken submarine, and his submarine warfare against Japan.
1954. 1st edition. A biography of the life of Admiral Sir Max Kennedy Horton, GCB, DSO, who joined the Royal Navy as a Cadet in 1898.
1952. U-Boat 977 escaped to Argentina from Norway, where it was based, at the end of WWII.
2002. Celebrates the U.S. Navy's Submarine force by setting forth in prose and pictures the story of its development through the first 100 years. SCARCE
1956. 1st edition. The remarkable true story of the authors 4 years active service on and below the seas during the most critical phases of the second world war.
1959. 1st edition. The astonishing feat of the first atomic submarine and its voyage beneath the polar ice pack.
2000. One of the great scientific and archaeological feats of our time has been finally to cast light on the 'eternal darkness' of the deep sea.
2001. Veteran correspondent D. C. Waller takes you on a tension-packed, three-month patrol deep in the Atlantic Ocean and inside one of these Tridents, the U.S.S. Nebraska.
2002. Kaplan traces the development of the modern submarine from the 75-ton USS Holland to the nuclear-powered vessels of the modern day.
1942. 1st edition. Edward Keble Chatterton (1878-1944) was a sailor and prolific writer who is best known for non-fiction works.
1918. 1st edition. Details the attacks, incidents, tactics, and activities of German submarines during the First World War.
1956. 1st edition. The submarine's first commission as part of the First Submarine Flotilla operating out of Alexandria in 1942.
1976. Includes monochrome images and signatures.
2019. The triumphant and engaging history of the young women who devised a winning strategy that defeated Nazi U-boats and delivered a decisive victory in the Battle of the Atlantic.
1935. 1st edition. Account of the submarine HMS J2 during World War One.
1961. History of submarines, including technical details / specifications.
1929. This book follows the tracks of the first German U-Boats coming to the American coast in the summer and fall of 1918.
2001. Essential summary of the famous U-boat Commander's handbook.
1997. 1st edition. Examines the lives of many U-Bootwaffe officers, including the famous and the not-so-well known, to see if these, or any other single image, can be considered representative.
1994. 1st edition. During six war patrols from 1944 through 1945, the submarine USS Flasher devastated Japanese convoys in the South China Sea. SIGNED.
1979. 1st edition. A true and dramatic story of how a German U-boat sank three British cruisers in one desperate hour.
1986. 1st edition. This chronicle 'looks at the development of the U-boat, its designers, promoters, adherents, detractors, officers and men.
1985. German submarines penetrated Canadian waters during the Second World War to within 172 miles of Quebec City.
1955. 1st edition. Churchill said the threat posed by Germany's U-boats in the 1939-45 conflict were his greatest concern.
1970. Text in German. An all photo study of the German Kriegesmarine's submarine force during WW 2. Fine photographic account with many unique photos.
1972. History of the Kaiser's attempt to destroy the British Empire by a ruthless campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1917. Vintage newspaper from World War I.
1956. The sinking of the great British liner Lusitania by a German U-boat in May 1915.
1996. 1st edition. The author's experiences as a Royal Navy officer, serving at Narvik, on Malta Convoys, at the capture of Diego Suarez, sailing in a captured German U-Boat.
1955. The story of the German submarine The Golden Horseshoe and her commander Otto Kretschmer.
1945. 1st edition. Anecdotes of the USS Sturgeon, a submarine, during World War Two, as told to Carmer by her captain, Lieutenant Commander 'Bull' Wright.
1969. An account of the controversy and mystery of the sinking of the British Battleship HMS Royal Oak in Scapa Flow by the German submarine U-47
1957. 1st edition. The war records of HMS Seraph/USS Seraph. Launched in May 1942, she sunk a whale for her first patrol.
1958. 1st edition. A detailed first hand account of the author's experiences in World War II as the commander of a British Submarines, Snapper, Trusty and Telemachus.
1994. 1st edition. In March 1943, a rusty cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk off the Azores on her way back to Germany from the Far East.
1974. Story of the American submarine that sank in 1963. The USS Thresher, the USN's most modern submarine, was lost on trials after a refit.
1985. Reviews submarines at both extremes of the size scale of the past, present, and future.
1991. Documents all the conventional submarines of the three major classes operated by the US government during World War II.
1982. A carefully researched and entertainingly written account of the role of this remarkable craft in military and scientific history.
Rarely seen colour photos of the worlds secret submarine fleets.
1923. Royal Navy officer Edward Keble Chatterton's history of Q-Ships.
2005. Early in 1968 a nuclear armed Soviet submarine sank in the waters off Hawaii, hundreds of miles closer to American shores than it should have been.
2005. Covers submarines from the first advanced diesel subs in the 1950s to the Kursk in 2000 this book tells the Soviet/Russian side of the most secretive operations of the Cold War.
1972. The development and career of the French Submarine RUBIS.
1994. 1st edition. The war diary of former German naval officer Otto Giese recounts a seafaring career of extraordinary scope.
1997. 1st edition. The stories of six U-boat commanders; - Engelbert Endrass - Karl-Friedrich Merten - Ralph Kapitsky - Fritz Guggenberger - Victor Oehrn - Heinz Eck.
2002. 1st edition. The most spectacular display of brinkmanship in the Cold War era.
1958. 1st edition. Memoirs of the British officer who survived more patrols than any other submarine commander during WWII.
1999. The heroic story of America's most daring World War II submarine, as told by the only surviving member of her crew Forest J. Sterling.
1995. Torpedoes in the Gulf tells a fascinating personal story with two sides.
1992. The author served as radio operator on U-764 and was in a position to detect falsehoods in the Captain's log.
1955. 1st edition. The complete and true story of the German U-Boat campaign during World War II.
1994. 1st edition. The evolution of submarine tactics and technology during WW2.
1952. One of the most disturbing surprises experienced by the British during the Second World War.
2014. The riveting true story of Japan's top secret plan to change the course of World War II using a squadron of mammoth submarines a generation ahead of their time.
1999. 1st edition. USS Guardfish (SS-217), a Gato-class veteran submarine served with the training command after the war and was decommissioned 25 May 1946.
2000. 1st edition. Examines U-234 that slipped out of a Norwegian harbour en-route to Japan loaded with technically advanced weaponry & 560 kilograms of Uranium oxide.
2000. Lt. Gibson's narrative shows the constant struggle of the Submariner with the element on which he works - the sea and the grand comradeship engendered officers and men by service in submarines.
1942. 1st edition. Keble Chatterton is unquestionably one of the most important and vivid nautical authors of the past century.
1952. 1st edition. The inside story of life aboard the deadly Nazi U-Boat that sank forty-nine ships.
1989. Richard O'Kane was Tang's skipper throughout her brief but gallant career, and clear the bridge is his account of the life of Tang and her crew.
1955. 1st edition. The Story of the German Frogmen and Midget Submarines. Much on Biebers.
2002. 1st edition. A gripping account of the Russian Navy's greatest peace-time disaster, the sinking of the nuclear submarine Kursk.
1996. 1st edition. The author has made exclusive use of Seahorses' war patrol reports, and conducted extensive interviews and correspondence with her surviving officers and enlisted men. SIGNED.
1996. 1st edition. A unique story of life aboard the German U Boats between 1940 and 1946.
2001. 1st edition. This is both the war memoir of a distinguished naval officer and the history of HMS Trenchant, a T Class submarine.
2006. 1st edition. SIGNED. English-language edition of D. A. Romanov's vigorous defence of the people and institutions that built the ill-fated Soviet nuclear attack submarine Komsomolets.
2003. Reproduced from confidential reports first released by the United States Government in 1945 for limited circulation to officers involved with the bombing campaign.
1999. 1st edition. HMS Safari was one of the most successful British submarines of World War II.
1930. The story of submarines in the Great War, this work draws upon the experiences of the author in a fleet of submarines in the Great War.
1999. 1st edition. It was the menace of the German submarines that so nearly brought defeat to the British in World War II.
1978. 1st edition. True account of the 1968 explosion and sinking of a Russian Golf-II submarine and the secret US Trojan Horse efforts to recover it from the Pacific.
1963. 1st edition. First-hand account of what went on during secret orders to take the Triton 36,000 nautical-mile voyage around the world!
1994. 1st edition. Begins in 1939, when the Squalus sank during a test dive. A diving bell saved 33 crewman with the aid of the Sculpin.
1977. Covers the submarines used by the Axis powers, mainly Germany, Japan and Italy but also including a number of smaller navies.
1986. Japanese naval history includes strategy and operations; construction and losses
1986. Naval history illustrated throughout with monochrome images and line drawings.
1998. 1st edition. Captures that critical stage of Russian submarine development in a series of extremely rare and historic photos, many never before published in the West.
1986. 1st edition. Provides an excellent if grim chronological account of all British submarine losses, half of which relates to World War 2.
1987. Reference book on submarines.
1983. 1st edition. The development of the Submarine, including much technical detail with plans and diagrams.
1961. 1st edition. The author commanded the nuclear submarine sent to find out if a submarine could safely navigate below ice flows beneath the Arctic Ocean.
2006. 1st edition. The gnawing enigma of the tragic 1968 loss of the nuclear attack submarine USS Scorpion.
1998. A former member of the U.S. Navy's submarine service describes a number of the expeditions under the arctic ice shelf.
1968. 1st edition. The greatest submarine rescue of our time, when the US Submarine Squalus sank to the bottom of the Atlantic in May 1937.
1982. 1st edition. Shows missile-launching, nuclear, and conventional subs used by the world's navies, and provides a description and technical information about each.
2002. 1st edition. In 1920, one of the American Navy's new-but-untested submarines, the S-Five, was stranded 180 feet beneath the Atlantic.
1967. 1st edition. This is the richly colored, action-filled autobiography of a Missouri country boy from the rolling prairies west of the Ozarks who heard and answered the call of the sea.
2014. A rare insider's view of the challenges, pressures, and excitement unique to submariners.
1974. The development of the submarine HMS Sovereign.
1959. 1st edition. Herbert Kitchener was an Irish-born senior British Army officer and colonial administrator.
1986. The history and development of the submarine.
2000. 1st edition. American submarine espionage has been a great secret few knew about or talked about. The exciting, epic story of adventure, ingenuity, and disaster beneath the sea.
2007. The dramatic and definitive account of the sinking of the Belgrano which was one of the most iconic moments of the Falklands war.
1995, 1st edition. Throughout World War II, RAF Coastal Command waged a long and bitter battle against Germany's submarine command.
1995. A vividly detailed account of life aboard U.S. submarines in the Pacific during World War II.
1982. A fresh and authoritative look at submarines during World War Two.
1978. 1st edition. Tells of the destruction to American shipping during the early days of World War II when Nazi U-boats were sent against the East Coast.
1948. 1st edition. Report of one of the War Crimes Trials of Heinz Eck, August Hoffmann, Walter Weisspfennig, Hans Richard Lenz and Wolfgang Schwender.
1949. 1st edition. Eyewitness account by the only known midget submarine skipper who survived the attack and who also became United States Prisoner of War #1.
1944. 1st edition. The story of the men who served in the Submarine Branch of the Royal Navy as well as those of our Allies in WW2.
1997. 1st edition. SIGNED. The story of two US submarines and their operations in the Pacific in WWII, including their significant involvement in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
1994. Reality and intensity are the chief watchwords of this unique and highly personal memoir of World War II submarine combat in the Southwest Pacific.
1984. 1st edition. Describes the service of an out-of-date American submarine during World War II and depicts the experiences of its officers and sailors.
1957. 1st edition. The saga of Malta submarines. Including a list of submarines & commanding officers of Malta Force Submarines.
1955. 1st edition. The U.S. Submarines that used a Top-Secret Sonar Device to penetrate Hirohito`s mine fields and deal the deathblow to Japanese Shipping.
1988. 1st edition. These personal accounts of life on wartime submarines focus on the humour of submarine life and add a personal dimension to the record.
1953. 1st edition. An account of the US submarines in the Pacific War, including; Trigger, Wahoo, Seawolf, Harder, Archerfish & Tang.
1995. 1st edition. Sasgen offers a dramatic account of the US submarine in the Pacific during World War II, where she sank more tons of enemy ship than all but one other sub.
1958. 1st edition. The capture of U-Boat U-570 by the British and its use against her sister ships as HMS Graph.
1995. Outstanding account by the sailor who went on to command the early Arctic nuclear submarine voyages.
1944. 1st edition. In 1925 the US Navy submarine S-51 was rammed by the steamship SS City of Rome in open seas off Rhode Island, and sank in 132 feet of water, with the loss of 33 lives.
1980. 1st edition. The story of the most lethal submarine ever, the USS Batfish.
1999. 1st edition. An account of the battle to survive by British merchant seamen during WW2.
2000. 1st edition. The author, who is an ex-submarine officer, presents an authoritative chronicle of the clash between seven nations' submarines and naval operations during World War II.
1988. 1st edition. When the First World War started in 1914 the potential of the submarine as a tactical weapon was largely a matter of conjecture.
1991. 1st edition. This volume is Allaway's international biography of Britain's greatest ever submarine captain.
1999. 1st edition. The book follows Orem's passage from boy-sailor in the sail training vessel Worchester just after the turn of the century to corridors of Admiralty by the end of the World War II.
1993. 1st edition. Henke was named master of U-515 early in 1942; on six patrols, his sub sank two dozen Allied vessels, ranking Henke 14th on the list of U-boat aces.
1932. William Guy Carr, the author of Pawns In The Game, tells about his experiences in the submarine fleet in World War I.
1963. 1st edition. Still the best account of the Royal Navy's attempt to match the Kaiser's U-boats in WWI.
1935. The biography of Commander Godfrey Herbert, an intrepid British submarine commander 1914 - 1918.
2001. 1st edition. Steven Trent Smith grapples boldly with several big subjects.
1988. 1st edition.
1995. 1st edition. The incredible stories of twenty-two lone survivors of maritime disasters are presented in this collection of war and peacetime incidents.
2014. 1st edition. The Kaiten was so secret that even Japanese naval commanders didn’t know of its existence.
1997. 1st edition. America's greatest error in the submarine war against Japan and the effect it has had on Japanese-American relations ever since.
2010. 1st edition. The incredible story of the mystery U-Boats of WWII.
1958. 1st edition. A comprehensive account of the U-Boat war from 1939 to 1945 as seen through the eyes of German naval officer and respected author.
1928. reprinted 1929. Campbell commanded British Q-Ships during the war.
1992. 1st edition. Legendary U-Boat Ace who sank 47 unarmed ships & a submarine.