U Boats In The Bahamas
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U Boats In The Bahamas Hc
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Author : Eric Wiberg
language : en
Publisher: ibooks
Release Date : 2016-10-21
U Boats In The Bahamas Hc written by Eric Wiberg and has been published by ibooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-21 with History categories.
“Eric Wiberg's ability, to unearth obscure historical facts, keeps me in a constant state of surprise. I commend his relentless determination to verify every detail, with local sources in Nassau's historical community, for corroboration of his findings.”—Capt. Paul C. Aranha, author, THE ISLAND AIRMAN . . . AND HIS BAHAMA ISLANDS HOME. “Eric Wiberg has made a significant contribution to the bibliography of World War II history.” —J. Revell Carr, Santa Fe, N.M. This his book tells one more key part of the big story and is one more piece in the giant puzzle of the history of World War II. Its value for historians cannot be underestimated. Throughout the stories of the attacks by German and Italian submarines on Allied shipping in the water around the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos, several consistent themes emerge in Wiberg’s thorough accounts. Prime among them is the heroism of the merchant mariners who time and again put themselves in danger as they performed the critical task of moving supplies, military and civilian, which were vital to ultimate victory. We read of numerous instances of sailors having their ships shot out from under them and then continuously going back to sea and having additional ships torpedoed and sunk. We can also recognize what we know today as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which was seldom recognized 75 years ago.
U Boats In The Bahamas
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Author : Eric Wiberg
language : en
Publisher: Brick Tower Press
Release Date : 2016-10-21
U Boats In The Bahamas written by Eric Wiberg and has been published by Brick Tower Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-21 with History categories.
Eric Wiberg grew up in the Bahamas, the son of the Swedish Consul-General there. A licensed maritime lawyer, his thesis for a Master’s Degree in Marine Affairs was published as Tanker Disasters. For three years he commercially operated tankers in Singapore. Over 25 years he has sailed on 100 vessels, most of them sailboats, for 75,000 miles, including voyages across the Atlantic and Pacific and over 30 ocean passages to or from Bermuda. He has published four books, the latest being Round the World in the Wrong Season. A graduate of Boston College, he studied at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, and in Lisbon. Employed in the shipping industry in New York City, he lives with his wife and son in Westport, Connecticut.
Nazi U Boats
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Author : Ron Alexander (Ship captain)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Nazi U Boats written by Ron Alexander (Ship captain) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Atlantic Ocean Region categories.
U Boats In New England
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Author : Eric Wiberg
language : en
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Release Date : 2019-11-03
U Boats In New England written by Eric Wiberg and has been published by Fonthill Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-03 with History categories.
Starting weeks after Hitler declared war on the United States in mid-December 1941 and lasting until the war with Germany was all but over, 73 German U-Boats sustainably attacked New England waters, from Montauk New York to the tip of Nova Scotia at Cape Sable. Fifteen percent of these boats were sunk by Allied counter-attacks, five surrendered in the region, and three were sunk off New England--Block Island, Massachusetts Bay, and off Nantucket. These have proven appealing to divers, with a result that at least three German naval officers or ratings are buried in New England, one having killed himself in the Boston jail cell. There were 34 Allied merchant or naval ships sunk by these subs, one of them, the 'Eagle', was not admitted to have been sunk by the Germans until decades later. Over 1,100 men were thrown in the water and 545 of them made it ashore in New England ports; 428 were killed. Importantly, saboteurs were landed three places: Long Island, Frenchman's Bay Maine and New Brunswick Canada, and Boston was mined. Very little was known about this.
Swan Sinks
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Author : Eric Wiberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-05-28
Swan Sinks written by Eric Wiberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-28 with History categories.
From 7 years' research in English, Italian, Greek documents and contacts. First-hand accounts including film by Italians of attack and sinking showing lifeboats. Greek and Italian perspectives as well as those of local Bahamians on San Salvador, the Greek community and officials in Nassau, as well as officials en-route to NY and beyond.
Bahamas In World War Ii
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Author : Eric Wiberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-11-29
Bahamas In World War Ii written by Eric Wiberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-29 with categories.
BAHAMAS IN WORLD WAR II: Utilizing the actual diaries of the navies and air forces of Germany, Italy, Britain, and United States, as well as records from the merchant ships of dozens of nations, this book tells the story of daily activities in a million-square-mile war zone. Over 2-million persons participated in an area 1 million square miles, with 150 bases ringing it. All 2,000 persons killed in action on all sides are named, along with 3,000 other participants, 140 ships, and 112 axis submarines. Two dozen units based in the Bahamas are covered, as are the deliveries of over 2,000 aircraft through the colony and the training of 5,000 airmen, from wheels up to wheels down. For a time more than 25% of the population of New Providence were RAF and other military personnel. Then, just over two years after it began, the frenetic activity ended. So far as is known, this is the first such military chronology of a World War II battlefield in the Western Hemisphere. It includes details of 300 RAF and USN accidents, 1,000 U-boat reports of sightings and attacks, 75 RAF wrecks in the Bahamas, 20,000 convoys, 4,000 ship names, and many VIP's, military and royal. Richly illustrated with 25 custom charts and many photographs.
U Boats Off Bermuda
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Author : Eric Wiberg
language : en
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Release Date : 2017-08-18
U Boats Off Bermuda written by Eric Wiberg and has been published by Fonthill Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-18 with Transportation categories.
The untold story of 142 German and one Italian submarines, which patrolled the waters around BermudaThe Axis powers sank eighty Allied ships, one of them naval, for the loss of two submarines1,224 Allied sailors and passengers were landed in Bermuda during the warMore than steel on steel: this book tells of their survival voyages, rescue and reception For the first time, a book exposes an obscure theatre of the Second World War in great detail and comprehensively, not just in terms of geography, but also from the perspectives of both Allied and Axis participants. U-Boats off Bermuda provides details of specific U-Boat patrols and their commanders, as well as a general overview of the situation in the theatre of war around Bermuda. It is a detailed analysis of individual casualties, broken down by a) background of ship, b) background of U-Boat, c) attack method (surface and/or submersed), d) details of survivors and their plight at sea and e) their rescue, recuperation and repatriation. Detailed maps and illustrations provide a human face to what were often tragic attacks with fatal consequences. Did you know that half a dozen German submarines came close enough to the US Naval Operating Base in Bermuda to see Gibbs Hill? Or that hardy Canadians from a sunken trading schooner rowed and sailed their way to the remote island on their own? Allied pilots based in Bermuda sank two German U-Boats, rescued dozens in daring water landings and several crashed.
Hurricane Hole
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Author : John Kerr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Hurricane Hole written by John Kerr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Bahamas categories.
1942: American undercover agent Tom Hamilton arrives in Nassau. German U-boats are sinking dozens of Allied merchant ships in the Caribbean. Posing as a playboy, Hamilton has been sent by his Washington bosses to investigate Nils Ericsson, a Swedish industrialist with known links to the Nazis. The suspicion is that Ericsson is building a base for the U-boat fleet... When Hamilton falls for Englishwoman Evelyn Shawcross, her affiliation with both Ericsson and the Duke of Windsor - wartime Governor of the Bahamas - complicates matters. Tom's operation to foil the plot is proving to be not only hazardous, but deadly...
How The Bahamas Helped To Shape The Atlantic World
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Author : Keith L. Tinker
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2024-05-16
How The Bahamas Helped To Shape The Atlantic World written by Keith L. Tinker and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-16 with History categories.
The book is intended to highlight select significant aspects of Bahamian history, which resonated around the world, and became planks in the construction of Atlantic histiography, thus in the process, helped to shape the Atantic story.
A History Of The Bahamian People
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Author : Michael Craton
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 1992
A History Of The Bahamian People written by Michael Craton and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
The present work concludes the important and monumental undertaking of Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People, creating the most thorough and comprehensive history yet written of a Caribbean country and its people. In the first volume Michael Craton and Gail Saunders traced the developments of a unique archipelagic nation from aboriginal times to the period just before emancipation. This long-awaited second volume offers a description and interpretation of the social developments of the Bahamas in the years from 1830 to the present. Volume Two divides this period into three chronological sections, dealing first with adjustments to emancipation by former masters and former slaves between 1834 and 1900, followed by a study of the slow process of modernization between 1900 and 1973 that combines a systematic study of the stimulus of social change, a candid examination of current problems, and a penetrating but sympathetic analysis of what makes the Bahamas and Bahamians distinctive in the world. This work is an eminent product of the New Social History, intended for Bahamians, others interested in the Bahamas, and scholars alike. It skillfully interweaves generalizations and regional comparisons with particular examples, drawn from travelers' accounts, autobiographies, private letters, and the imaginative reconstruction of official dispatches and newspaper reports. Lavishly illustrated with contemporary photographs and original maps, it stands as a model for forthcoming histories of similar small ex-colonial nations in the region.