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Gunboats Of World War I
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Author : Angus Konstam
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-04-20
Gunboats Of World War I written by Angus Konstam and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-20 with History categories.
Naval action in World War I conjures up images of enormous dreadnoughts slugging it out in vast oceans. Yet the truth is that more sailors were killed serving on gunboats and monitors operating far from the naval epicentre of the war than were ever killed at Jutland. Gunboat engagements during this war were bloody and hard fought, if small in scale. Austrian gunboats on the Danube fired the first shots of the war, whilst German, British and Belgian gunboats fought one of the strangest, most intriguing naval campaigns in history in far-flung Lake Tanganyika. From the Mediterranean to the Black Sea, from the Balkans to Mesopotamia, gunboats played an influential part in the story of World War I. This detailed technical guide to the gunboats of all the major navies of the war means that, for the first time, the story can be told.
Soviet Motor Gunboats Of World War Ii
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Author : Przemyslaw Budzbon
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-11-23
Soviet Motor Gunboats Of World War Ii written by Przemyslaw Budzbon and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-23 with History categories.
A compelling account of the heavily armed and highly mobile Soviet river gunboats which took on the Germans during World War II. Russia's enormous river system has long been its highway and, as early as 1908, the Tsar's armies were developing armoured riverboats that brought tank-like mobility, firepower and survivability to Russian battlefields. This book, the first history of these vessels in English, explains how this concept led to one of the most remarkable naval weapons of World War II, the Soviet 'river tank', or Armoured Motor Gun Boat (AMGB). Highly mobile, capable of carrying up to 20 infantrymen directly into action and providing immediate firepower from their tank turrets, machine guns or Katyusha rockets, their military value was widely recognized. They were versatile enough to be used in naval landing operations off the Gulf of Finland, the Azov Sea and the Black Sea, and their capabilities were prized by local commanders. Using meticulously researched new colour profiles, rare photos and spectacular artwork, this book uncovers the history of river warfare on the Eastern Front, and the boats that played such a key part in the fighting.
American Amphibious Gunboats In World War Ii
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Author : Robin L. Rielly
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-05-13
American Amphibious Gunboats In World War Ii written by Robin L. Rielly and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-13 with History categories.
As the United States began its campaign against numerous Japanese-held islands in the Pacific, Japanese tactics required them to develop new weapons and strategies. One of the most crucial to the island assaults was a new group of amphibious gunboats that could deliver heavy fire close in to shore as American forces landed. These gunboats were also to prove important in the interdiction of inter-island barge traffic and, late in the war, the kamikaze threat. Several variations of these gunboats were developed, based on the troop carrying LCI(L). They included three conversions of the LCI(L), with various combinations of guns, rockets and mortars, and a fourth gunboat, the LCS(L), based on the same hull but designed as a weapons platform from the beginning. By the end of the war the amphibious gunboats had proven their worth.
Tigris Gunboats
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Author : Wilfred Nunn
language : en
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Release Date : 2007
Tigris Gunboats written by Wilfred Nunn and has been published by US Naval Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Iraq categories.
March 2007 sees the 90th anniversary of the fall of Baghdad. Few people realise that the latest American-led invasion was prefigured by a poorly-resourced but ultimately successful British campaign during the First World War. This book covers the whole campaign, but concentrates on the Navy's role.
Us Navy Gunboats 1885 1945
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Author : Brian Lane Herder
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-04-15
Us Navy Gunboats 1885 1945 written by Brian Lane Herder and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-15 with History categories.
A study of the history of the US Navy's gunboats and their role in building a worldwide American naval presence abroad and in combat, from the Yangtze era through to World War II. For more than half a century, American gunboats were the ships often responsible for policing small crises and provided deterrence and fast-response capabilities around the world – showing the flag, landing armed parties, patrolling river and littoral areas, and protecting ex-pats. They were often the United States' most-visible and constant military presence in far-flung foreign lands, and were most closely associated with the Far East, particularly the Philippines and China. Most famous, of course, was the multinational Yangtze Patrol. Many US gunboats were built, purchased or reassembled overseas where they usually served out their entire careers, never coming within 7,000 miles of the national homeland which they served. Numerous gunboats were captured from the Spanish during the 1898 war, many being raised from shallow graves, refurbished, and commissioned into USN service. The classic haunt of US gunboats was the Asiatic Station of China and the Philippines. Gunboat service overseas was typically exotic and the sailors' lives were often exciting and unpredictable. The major operational theatres associated with the US gunboats were the pre-1898 cruises and patrols of the earliest steel gunboats, the Spanish-American War of 1898 (both the Philippines and the Caribbean), the guerilla wars of the early 20th century Philippines and Latin America, the Asiatic Fleet and Yangtze Patrol of the 1890s–1930s, and finally World War II, which largely entailed operations in China, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, Alaska, and on convoy routes. It was Japan's sudden 1941–1942 'Centrifugal Offensive' that effectively spelled the beginning of the end not just of most American gunboats, but also the century-old world order in Asia that had provided US gunboats with their primary mission.
The War Of The Gun Boats
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Author : Bryan Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2009-07-19
The War Of The Gun Boats written by Bryan Cooper and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-19 with History categories.
This WWII naval history chronicles the development of small fighting boats as well as the evolution of their tactics and coastal warfare operations. Small, fast and highly maneuverable, gunboats and motor torpedo boats were a vital part of naval combat through the Second World War. Every major naval power built their own versions: The Germans had Schnellboote, the Royal Navy had MTBs and MGBs, and the Americans had PT boats. With their daring night raids and close-range battles, they displayed the buccaneering spirit of an earlier age. These small boats fought in coastal waters across the globe, from the narrow waters of the English Channel to the stormy North Sea; in the Mediterranean off the coasts of North Africa and Italy and among the islands of the Aegean; across the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to Leyte Gulf; in Hong Kong and Singapore; and off Burma's Arakan coast. In The War of the Gun Boats, historian Bryan Cooper traces the development of these craft, beginning with their limited use in the First World War and the fast motorboats designed to break water speed records in the 1930s. Cooper then details their widespread implementation during the Second World War and the development of their own form of naval warfare.
Soviet Motor Gunboats Of World War Ii
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Author : Przemyslaw Budzbon
language : en
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Release Date : 2023-11-21
Soviet Motor Gunboats Of World War Ii written by Przemyslaw Budzbon and has been published by Osprey Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-21 with History categories.
A compelling account of the heavily armed and highly mobile Soviet river gunboats which took on the Germans during World War II. Russia's enormous river system has long been its highway and, as early as 1908, the Tsar's armies were developing armoured riverboats that brought tank-like mobility, firepower and survivability to Russian battlefields. This book, the first history of these vessels in English, explains how this concept led to one of the most remarkable naval weapons of World War II, the Soviet 'river tank', or Armoured Motor Gun Boat (AMGB). Highly mobile, capable of carrying up to 20 infantrymen directly into action and providing immediate firepower from their tank turrets, machine guns or Katyusha rockets, their military value was widely recognized. They were versatile enough to be used in naval landing operations off the Gulf of Finland, the Azov Sea and the Black Sea, and their capabilities were prized by local commanders. Using meticulously researched new colour profiles, rare photos and spectacular artwork, this book uncovers the history of river warfare on the Eastern Front, and the boats that played such a key part in the fighting.
Gunboat Small Ships At War
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Author : Bryan Perrett
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-10-11
Gunboat Small Ships At War written by Bryan Perrett and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-11 with History categories.
This is naval action adventure with a difference - thirteen naval engagements in which gunboats won the day against every kind of enemy, large and small Britain, like other colonial powers, established, controlled and accessed her empire from the seas. It was realised that the preservation of secure trading conditions required armed ships able to operate in shallow coastal and river waters. The gunboat was developed to meet this need: a small, shallow-draft, steam-powered screw or paddle driven vessel, sufficiently fast and manoeuvrable to take the enemy, whether on shore or afloat, by surprise. In this book Bryan Perrett recounts thirteen episodes of exciting gunboat action, ranging from the Burma war in 1824, through two world wars and on to the dramatic escape of the Amethyst down the Yangtze in 1949.
Tigris Gunboats
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Author : Wilfrid Nunn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1932
Tigris Gunboats written by Wilfrid Nunn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1932 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
American Amphibious Gunboats In World War Ii
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Author : Robin L. Rielly
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-05-04
American Amphibious Gunboats In World War Ii written by Robin L. Rielly and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-04 with History categories.
As the United States began its campaign against numerous Japanese-held islands in the Pacific, Japanese tactics required them to develop new weapons and strategies. One of the most crucial to the island assaults was a new group of amphibious gunboats that could deliver heavy fire close in to shore as American forces landed. These gunboats were also to prove important in the interdiction of inter-island barge traffic and, late in the war, the kamikaze threat. Several variations of these gunboats were developed, based on the troop carrying LCI(L). They included three conversions of the LCI(L), with various combinations of guns, rockets and mortars, and a fourth gunboat, the LCS(L), based on the same hull but designed as a weapons platform from the beginning. By the end of the war the amphibious gunboats had proven their worth.