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Bathrone
08-22-07, 10:18 PM
Fathers day is coming up and Im looking to drop my "order" :)

I'm after a good sub non-fiction book on WW2, doesnt matter Uboat or Pacific, must be english. I would prefer a book that goes into alot of technical details and provides insights into sub operation. At the sametime ideally it would have descriptions of encounters rather than being a manual on sub operations.

So recommendations please :arrgh!:
Bill Nichols
08-23-07, 05:59 AM
You can't get any more technical or authentic than this:

http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/yhst-68490250594496_1962_8994992

http://www.periscopefilm.com/book1.html

Although it doesn't meet your second criteria (to have descriptions of encounters rather than being a manual on sub operations). For that, you definitely want:

United States Submarine Operations in World War 2, by Theodore Roscoe.

:know:
Bathrone
08-25-07, 07:14 AM
Legend thanks mate
AirborneTD
08-25-07, 07:21 AM
This one is highly technical, too. "US Submarines Through 1945" (an illustrated design history) by Norman Friedman.

My favorite all time pac war sub book is "Silent Victory" by Clay Blair and I am currently still reading Roscoe's US Sub Operations book as mentioned above. This one is very good but dated as it was published in 1949. Blair's book is a great read published in the 1990's when Ultra/intelligence info could be divulged.
Bill Nichols
08-25-07, 10:36 AM
This one is highly technical, too. "US Submarines Through 1945" (an illustrated design history) by Norman Friedman.

My favorite all time pac war sub book is "Silent Victory" by Clay Blair and I am currently still reading Roscoe's US Sub Operations book as mentioned above. This one is very good but dated as it was published in 1949. Blair's book is a great read published in the 1990's when Ultra/intelligence info could be divulged.

Both good suggestions as well. :up:
Sailor Steve
08-28-07, 05:12 PM
Although it doesn't meet your second criteria
Bill, Bill, Bill, I thought you were better than that. I've been slammed for correcting people's grammar before, but this one I can't let slide:

If it's one, it's a criterion.
Bill Nichols
08-28-07, 05:35 PM
Although it doesn't meet your second criteria
Bill, Bill, Bill, I thought you were better than that. I've been slammed for correcting people's grammar before, but this one I can't let slide:

If it's one, it's a criterion.

My bad :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: