My local authority library service doesn't have this, but my neighbouring one, which I'm also a member, does :yeah:.

That's saved the kid's christmas :yep:, but subsim misses out :nope:.

One of the few books that shows the map locations of the builders yards.

Happy reading http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...lies/read2.gif

Don't forget to remind them of their uncle buna, the one they haven't seen since the day they were born....he loves book suprises at xmas http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/2391/bubblegum21.gif

Favourite Uboat books

U-boat Far From Home - by David Stevens
The epic voyage of U-862 to Australia and New Zealand. Some black & white pictures

Hirschfeld by Wolfgang Hirschfeld

Wolfgang risked court martial and possible death by keeping a diary of his career on U-boats, which lasted from 1940 to the end of the war, this is his own dramatic authentic and at times terrifying story. Some black & white pictures.


The Golden Horseshoe -by Terence Robertson
about Otto Kretschmer Captain of U-99

Unbroken - by Alastair Mars. not a uboat but about the British sub Unbroken in the Med during the war.

Added to wish list. *sigh*

The Stevens book looks good but the cheapest copy at Amazon is over $130 and that's used from a third party vendor. :wah:

Oh well I'll keep an eye on it, maybe the price will come down.

just finished reading that yesterday :sunny:

omg $130! I brought Uboat far from home about 10yrs ago and it cost me $39.95 back then and I thought that was overpriced. lol

Depending on how bad you want the book I found it on Trademe here (New Zealand) you can register and bid for the book, so far bidding is at $8 and ends on friday. Only one other bidding atm. Most sellers accept overseas customers you can ask the seller on the bottom of his auction page if hes willing to send of to America.

Sign up here: http://www.trademe.co.nz/Default.aspx

And heres the link to Uboat far from home:
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Books/Rare-...-323205624.htm

If I remember right you don't have to add any money to your account before you can buy, if you want to sell you have to add $10 or more.

Thanks, but I'll just wait and see what happens with it on Amazon. I've got plenty of other things on my wish list to keep me occupied in the meantime. :D

No problem. :up:

I just took a look at amazon where the dearest copy of Uboat far from home is $273 :o Man I'm selling my stuff on the wrong auction site! Amazon here I come. :haha:

Yeah, I don't know what goes into the pricing - and those seem like really high prices for used copies of anything, unless it's a collectible of some kind. But prices fluctuate so I just keep stuff on my wish list and wait it out. If someday it's the last u-boat book in the world I still don't have, and it's still that expensive, paying that much might not seem so bad. But right now I can get 10-12 other decent used books that I want just as much for the same money.

hi hunters

started reading Lusitania - Saga and Myth by David Ramsay. its just begining to pick up a head of steam!

...and joy of joys, my copy of Lone Wolf: The Life and Death of Werner Henke has come today too :DL

and a really good copy too. hard back excellent condition all the way from America for $18 !

its going for £20-£70 on Amazon

do you think we have started a book-rush of buying with this thread?


EDIT: another way of looking for the book you want is to do an ISBN search. its the bar code number on the back of the book at the bottom. there are many sites to run the ISBN number into, and this will give you global sellers with the title and price and shipping details.

I'm beginning to get tempted to pricing up my collection for retirement and offering first refusal to SS members.

:D

Well I can only speak for myself, but I had a bill coming that I expected to be a coupla hundred dollars or more with our new health insurance... but when I got the EOB from my insurance it turns out that stuff I thought would be going to deductible on the new plan is actually not subject to deductible after all. So my bill ended up being less than a third of what I had set aside for it. :yeah:

In short, I had extra money to play with, and $50 in Amazon gift certificates on top of it... actually I was saving those to buy a new lamp I had my eye on. Which I did buy, the books were just a bonus 'cause EXTRA MONEY! Money I thought was already "spent" anyway.

ARTIC CONVOYS by Richard Woodman gives a comphrehensive and detailed overveiw of the Artic campaign.Gives you a good insight into the brutal conditions.

...and what will required reading be then?

...surely you would hold back a few favorites?

..what lesser known titles do you have? for example, i have just discovered one called Bloody Winter about the Russian Convoys. i have been reading the history for five years now and that one i have never heard of..