Bernard Edwards: 15 books
Churchill's Thin Grey Line
British Merchant Ships at War 1939–1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The naval historian and retired merchant navy captain recounts the contributions of Britain’s civilian ships during WWII in this “cracking read” (The Bridgend & Porthcawl Gem).
The first British casualties of the Second World War were not members of the Royal Navy, the army, or the Royal...
Beware Raiders!
German Surface Raiders in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
A British naval historian recounts the victories and defeats of two of the most infamous German Navy vessels during World War II.
Bernard Edwards’s Beware Raiders! tells the fascinating story of two German ships and the havoc they caused amongst Allied shipping in World War II. One was the...
by Bernard Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Imperial Japan's wartime atrocities left a bloody stain on the waters of the Pacific... This is a story that might have quietly slipped beneath the waves of history had Bernard Edwards not written this important book. The book vividly recounts the barbaric actions of Japan's navy in the wake of its...
The Road to Russia
Arctic Convoys 1942-45
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Bernard Edwards, the formidable naval historian, has researched the fate of Convoys PQ13 and PQ17 bound from Iceland to Northern Russia as well as the westbound Convoy QP13. Attacked relentlessly by aircraft and U-boats, the former lost a total of thirty ships while QP13 ran into a British minefield...
War Under the Red Ensign
1914–1918
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
The Kaiser’s determination to starve Britain into surrender and the development of his Navy and the U-boats in particular meant that Britain’s merchant navy was in the front line throughout the Great War.
This book charts the progress of the war at sea which began with the sinking of the...
The Wolf Packs Gather
Mayhem in the Western Approaches 1940
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
The capture by the German surface raider Atlantis of the British steamer City of Baghdad’s secret code books in July 1940 enabled the Nazis to de-cypher Admiralty convoy plans with deadly effect. This book describes the resulting appalling Allied losses suffered by four convoys during the Autumn...
Convoy Will Scatter
The Full Story of Jervis Bay and Convoy HX84
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
On 5 November, 1940 the eastbound convoy HX 84 of thirty-seven merchant ships, escorted by the armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay, was attacked in mid-Atlantic by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer. The Jervis Bay, commanded by Captain Edward Fegen, charged at the enemy. Hopelessly out-gunned,...
by Bernard Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2003
In essence, this is the story of U-223,commanded by Karl-Jurgen Wïoehter from the time of her commissioning in Kiel in January 1943 through a murderous career to her eventual but dramatic demise in the Mediterranean in March 1944. At the same time, the book covers the declining fortunes of the U-boat...
Death in the Doldrums
U-Cruiser Actions off West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2005
With their very long range, the giant Type IX U-Cruisers gave Admiral Dönitz's U-boat fleet global reach. Initially these boats operated with considerable success off the East coast of America and in the Caribbean but their main impact was in the Gulf of Guinea 1942-43 which, due to the closure of...
The Decoys
A Tale of Three Atlantic Convoys, 1942
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
In November 1942, Britain and America launched Operation TORCH, the ambitious invasion of French North Africa.
To convey 70,000 troops and their equipment required 600 merchant ships crossing the U-boat infested North Atlantic. The need for their protection meant withdrawing escorts from...
Quiet Heroes
British Merchant Seamen at War, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
The men of Britain's Merchant Navy, although unarmed civilians going about their lawful business were the first to be involved with the enemy in the Second World War. Less than nine hours after the declaration of war on 3 September 1939, the Donaldson liner Athenia was sunk without warning by a German...
by Bernard Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
On 17 September 1942 Admiral Karl Donitz, C-in-C U-boats, issued the following directive:
To all Commanders - 'All attempts to rescue members of ships sunk, therefore also fishing out swimmers and putting them into lifeboats, righting capsized lifeboats, handing out provisions and water, have...
Japan’s Blitzkrieg
The Allied Collapse in the East 1941-42
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2006
Early on the morning of 7 December 1941, 360 Japanese carrier-borne aircraft made a surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, and laid waste to the American Far East Fleet. They sank four battleships, crippled three cruisers and three destroyers, and seriously damaged two other battleships....
by Alastair Gunn, William D. O’Connor, James Hain Friswell
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Twenty Christmas ghost stories from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the second in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 2 in the series spans the years 1836 to 1899, contains...
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