Smoke and Mirrors : Q-Ships Against the U-Boats in the First World War Paperback / softback
by Deborah Lake
Paperback / softback
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The Q-ship, an ordinary merchant vessel with concealed guns, came into its own during the First World War, when the Royal Navy to trap and destroy German U-boats.
Deborah Lake uses a wide range of primary and secondary source material drawn from archives in the UK, Germany and the USA to tell the compelling story of the Q-ships and their U-boat adversaries.
The Q-ship operations themselves will be covered by following the careers of the eight men who won the Victoria Cross on Special Service Operations; and by accounts of German U-boat crews being on the receiving end.
No book on Q-ships can avoid the Baralong incident in which a Q-ship's crew allegedly executed the survivors of the German submarine U-27, on 19 August 1915.
In a subsequent encounter with U-41, more British atrocities were alleged by the only two German survivors.
Revealing extracts from the diary of a Royal Marine who served on board the Baralong are reproduced in the book together with other first-hand accounts.
With charge and counter-charge, this incident provides a fascinating story.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:The History Press Ltd
- Publication Date:15/01/2007
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- ISBN:9780750946056
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:The History Press Ltd
- Publication Date:15/01/2007
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- ISBN:9780750946056
