Lawrence Paterson: 11 books
U-Boats in the Mediterranean
1941–1944
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Between September 1941 and May 1944, the Germans sent sixty-two U-boats into the Mediterranean. To get there, the boats had to pass through the Strait of Gibraltar?the British-held entry point, where nearly a third of them were sunk or forced to turn back. Of the submarines that made it into the clear,...
by Lawrence Paterson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Lawrence Paterson is an author and historian.
Steel and Ice
The U-Boat Battle in the Arctic and Black Sea 1941-45
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
The U-boat war against Russia was as fierce and unrelenting as the land war that raged along the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945. From Wolf Pack attacks on Russian convoy traffic and military vessels to close-quarter combat undertaken by small U-boats transported by land and river to the Black...
Hitler's Forgotten Flotillas
Kriegsmarine Security Forces
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
“A vast amount of information on the German Naval Security Fleet, sicherungsstreitkräfte, producing what is a unique review in depth.” —Firetrench.com
This study of the Kriegsmarine’s Sicherungsstreitkräfte, their security forces, fills a glaring gap in the study of the German navy in...
Donitz's Last Gamble
The Inshore U-Boat Campaign 1944-45
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2008
By the end of 1943 the German submarine war on Atlantic convoys was all but defeated, beaten by superior technology, code-breaking and air power. With losses mounting, Dönitz withdrew the wolfpacks, but in a surprise change of strategy, following the D-Day landings in June 1944, he sent his U-boats...
Schnellboote
A Complete Operational History
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The Kriegsmarine's Schnellboote – fast attack boats or E-boats to the Allies – were the primary German naval attack units in coastal waters throughout the Second World War.
Operating close to their various bases they became a devastatingly effective weapon in nearly all the Kriegsmarine's theatres...
U-Boat War Patrol
The Hidden Photographic Diary of U-564
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
This unique account charts the complete story of a single U-boat patrol through the summer of 1942 based around a remarkable collection of photographs that were ‘liberated’ from a concrete U-boat pen in Brest at the end of the war and which had, until recently, remained hidden in a shoe box. The...
Hitler's Gray Wolves
U-Boats in the Indian Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The untold true story of German U-boats in World War II operating alongside the Japanese to wreak havoc in the Pacific Theater.
Very little has been written about the U-boat war in the Indian Ocean, where almost forty German submarines were assigned to operate from the Malaysian port of Georgetown...
Weapons of Desperation
German Frogmen and Midget Submarines of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
As the Third Reich headed for destruction, German ingenuity in the naval field turned to unconventional weapons – midget submarines, radio-controlled explosive boats, and various forms of underwater sabotage.
This is one of the last un-chronicled areas of World War II naval history and this...
Black Flag
The Surrender of Germany's U-Boat Forces on Land and at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
On the eve of Germany's surrender in May 1945, Grossadmiral Karl Dönitz commanded thousands of loyal and active men of the U-boat service. Still fully armed and unbroken in morale, enclaves of these men occupied bases stretching from Norway to France, where cadres of U-boat men fought on in ports...
Pockets of Change
Adaptation and Cultural Transition
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
The twelve essays collected in Pockets of Change locate adaptation within a framework of two overlapping, if not simultaneous, creative processes: on the one hand, adaptation is to be understood as an acknowledged transposition of an existing source-that is, the process of adapting from; on the other...