The war of the gun Boats [Audiobook] download free by Bryan Cooper
- Listen audiobook: The war of the gun Boats
- Author: Bryan Cooper
- Release date: 2009/10/15
- Publisher: PEN & SWORD BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9781848840188
- Rating: 9.92 of 10
- Votes: 62
- Review by: Achilles Whitlow
- Review rating: 8.91 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/13
- Duration: 2H47M22S in 256 kbps (44.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-17
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, WAV, Apple Lossless, MPEG4, ATRAC, WMA, FLAC, MPEG-4 DST (compression BZ, LZ, RAR, AZW3, TBZ, TGZ, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 224
- Includes a PDF summary of 23 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 17M41S (4.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The 'little ships' of the Second World War - the fast and highly manoeuvrable motor torpedo boats and gunboats which fought in coastal waters all over the world - developed a special kind of naval warfare. With their daring nightly raids against an enemy's coastal shipping - and sometimes much larger warships - they acquired thebuccaneering spirit of an earlier age. And never more so than in the close hand-to-hand battles which raged between opposing craft when they met in open waters.Large numbers of these small fighting boats were built by the major naval powers. The Germans called them Schnellboote (Fast Boats), referred to by the British as E-boats (E for Enemy). In the Royal Navy they were MTBs and MGBs. The American equivalent were PT boats (for Patrol Torpedo). They fought in the narrow waters ofthe English Channel and 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 Harbour to Leyte Gulf, in Hong Kong and Singapore, and off Burma's Arakan coast.Bryan Cooper's book traces the history and development of these craft from their first limited use in the First World War and the fast motor boats designed in the 1930s for wealthy private clients and water speed record attempts.With account of the battles which took place during the Second World War, when the vital importance of coastal waters came to be recognised, he captures the drama of this highly individual form of combat. And not least the sea itself which was the common enemy of all who crewed these frail craft.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Military Engineering, Military & Naval Ships, World War 2 Books, Military History, Ships & Shipping, Military Vehicles
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 26.06 USD
- Dimensions: 156x234x22.86mm
- Weight: 539.77g
- Printed by: Pen & Sword Military
- Published in: South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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