TIN-POTS AND PIRATE SHIPS: CANADIAN NAVAL FORCES AND GERMAN SEA RAIDERS 1880-1918
Written by Michael L. Hadley, Roger Sarty
Published by McGill-Queen's University Press
in 1991
ISBN: 0773507787
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
- MILITARY
- WORLD WAR I
- NAVY
- CANADA
- GERMANY
TIN-POTS AND PIRATE SHIPS: CANADIAN NAVAL FORCES AND GERMAN SEA RAIDERS 1880-1918
Written by Michael L. Hadley, Roger Sarty.
Stock no. 1818370
1st.
1991.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The authors shed new light on Canadian and German history - and on Canada's naval defences in particular - by exploring the naval operations and politics of both nations between 1880 and 1918. Red cloth boards, silver title to spine. A few b/w photos. xvi and 391 pages including index. ISBN: 0773507787. Boards lightly bowed. A few minor foxspots mainly to prelims and text block. Grey pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine.
Front cover
Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- PART ONE: IMPERIAL RIVALRIES 1880-1914
- 1 Canada's Splendid Isolation
- 2 German Designs on North America
- 3 "Heart-breaking starvation time"
- PART TWO: WHITHER AMERICA? 1914-1916
- 4 Britain's Lifeline
- 5 Canadian Intelligence and Patrols
- 6 Three German Visitors
- 7 The "Piracy" of U-53
- PART THREE: UNRESTRICTED U-BOAT WARFARE 1917-1918
- 8 Defending the Convoys
- 9 Long Range U-Boats
- 10 "Hun Pirate Deviltry"
- 11 The Pirates' Triumph and Canadian Response
- 12 Epilogue: Mad Dreams and Mothballs
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index