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2) Das boot
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Description
At the height of World War II, a young submarine crew heads out to sea on a top-secret mission that all but ensures most will never make it home alive. Ordered to patrol the Atlantic and destroy an allied armada bringing supplies to Britain, these raw recruits must band together, bracing themselves against a depth-charge assault from an unseen enemy. Can the captain and his crew summon the strength to escape their watery grave?
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Description
The #1 New York Times best-selling author of In the Garden of Beasts presents a 100th-anniversary chronicle of the sinking of the Lusitania that discusses the factors that led to the tragedy and the contributions of such figures as President Wilson, bookseller Charles Lauriat and architect Theodate Pope Riddle.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (171 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In September 1942 at the height of the battle for the Atlantic, a German U-boat torpedoed the RMS Laconia, sinking the British ship without knowing that it carried more than 2,000 passengers, many of them civilians. What followed is a harrowing true story of heroism, heartbreak, and unexpected humanity in the midst of the bloodiest conflict in history.
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Long before 9/11, a far deadlier, little-known attack from the ocean depths struck our shores, lasting three-and-a-half years and claiming 5,000 lives. Now, famed undersea explorer Bob Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic, investigates the wreck of one attack craft, a German submarine that lies at the bottom of the gulf just a few miles off the coast of New Orleans. U-166 was part of Operation Drumbeat, a highly successful German U-boat operation that...
Author
Publisher
Casemate
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
360 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
The final days of Germany's greatest battleship illuminates the strategic implications and dramatic battles surrounding the "Tirpitz," a ship that may have had greater influence on the course of World War II than her more famous sister, the "Bismarck."
Author
Publisher
Ariel
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
501 pages : map ; 23 cm
Description
"Inmenso y lujoso, el Lusitania, que zarpo de Nueva York el 1 de mayo de 1915, era un monumento al orgullo y el ingenio de la epoca, el barco civil mas rapido. Con el pasaje completo, partio con tranquilidad pese a la atmosfera belica existente. La idea de que un submarino aleman pudiera hundirlo parecia absurda, un sentimiento del que se hacia eco la naviera: (S0(BEl Lusitania es el barco mas seguro del mar. Es demasiado rapido para cualquier submarino....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
German naval officer Karl Ehrlich loves his country and hates Hitler. As World War II erupts, Ehrlich defies orders and takes his freighter on a fox-and-hound pursuit from the Germans and the British.
9) U-571
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During World War II, a group of Navy men are sent to steal Enigma (the Nazis' top-secret decoding device). When their own ship is destroyed, they must secretly make their way through hostile waters in a severely damaged Nazi U-boat to safety with the device.
12) Dead wake
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2015, ©2014
Physical Desc
11 CDs (ca. 13 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"It is a story that many of us think we know but don?t, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the...
13) Das boot
Publisher
Columbia TriStar/ Sony Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, c1997.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (209 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the patrol of the U-96, one of the famed German U-boats known as the "Gray Wolves" that sought to harass and destroy British ships during World War II. Portrays the crew as they struggle to maintain their professionalism as soldiers while trying to understand and obey the ideology of the German government which they served.
14) Das boot
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (209 min.) : sd., col., double sided ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the daring patrol of the U-96, one of the famed German U-boats known as the "gray wolves." The crew is graphically portrayed in a life-and-death struggle, challenging the British Navy at every turn.
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xi, 292 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Description
"A true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII."--Provided by publisher.
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Formats
Description
In 1991, acting on a tip from a local fisherman, two scuba divers discovered a sunken German U-boat–complete with its crew of 60 men–not too far off the New Jersey coast. The divers, realizing the momentousness of their discovery, began probing the mystery. Over the next six years, they became expert and well-traveled researchers, taught themselves German, hunted for clues in Germany, and constructed theories corrective of the history books, all...
Author
Series
True rescue volume 4
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xi, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
On May 19, 1942, during WWII, a U-boat in the Gulf of Mexico stalked its prey fifty miles from New Orleans. The submarine set its sights on the freighter Heredia. Most onboard were merchant seamen, but there were also civilians, including the Downs family: Ray and Ina, and their two children. Fast asleep in their berths, the Downs family had no idea that two torpedoes were heading their way. When the ship exploded, chaos ensued-and each family member...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
ix, 390 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Description
One of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coast against the men of the U.S. Merchant Marine who were supplying the European war, and one community's monumental contribution to that effort.
One of the indelible images of World War II is of an explosion at sea-- a U-boat attack, a ship in flames, and an ocean full of men swimming for their lives. The Mathews Men tells the story of what it was like...
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