Schnellboote (2e GM) - Allemagne : livres - histoire

German E-boats 1939-45 (Osprey)

Au moment du déclenchement de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l'Allemagne avait largement reconstruit la flotte de haute mer du Kaiser, sabordée après sa capitulation à la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale. Contrainte de la reconstruire, la Kriegsmarine possédait certains des navires de guerre les plus avancés technologiquement de l'histoire.
Bien que les unités lourdes de la flotte fussent trop peu nombreuses pour constituer une menace significative, l'Allemagne était particulièrement bien servie par les navires plus petits de sa marine, notamment les U-Boote et les S-Boote. Connus des Alliés sous le nom de E-Boote ("Ennemi"), ils accomplirent des missions remarquables en mer Noire et dans la Manche, où ils devinrent un véritable fléau.

Sommaire : Introduction - Détails du développement - Description générale - Armement - Groupe motopropulseur - Schémas de couleurs - Radar - Organisation de la S-Bootwaffe - Utilisation opérationnelle - Bibliographie - Commentaire des planches en couleur - Index.

Caractéristiques

Auteur :	Gordon Williamson
Présentation :	48 pages, 24.5 x 18.5 x 0.4 cm, broché
Illustration :	abondamment illustré de photos et dessins (en N&B et en couleurs)
Langue :	anglais
Editeur :	Osprey Publishing (GB, 2002)
Série :	New Vanguard (59)
ISBN :	9781841764450

E-boat vs MTB - The English Channel 1941-45 (Osprey)

Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les vedettes rapides allemandes (E-Boats) étaient si actives dans la Manche que ce passage étroit fut surnommé "l'allée des E-Boats". Pour contrer la menace que représentaient ces vedettes, la Grande-Bretagne déploya ses forces côtières : des flottilles de vedettes lance-torpilles et canonnières (MTB et MGB) et de vedettes rapides (ML).
Alors que les Allemands cherchaient à maintenir leur suprématie dans la Manche, ils poursuivirent le développement de leurs vedettes rapides (E-Boats) afin d'y intégrer un blindage et une puissance de feu accrus. Plutôt que d'égaler l'armement des nouvelles E-Boats, les Britanniques développèrent plusieurs types pour répondre aux divers rôles que la Kriegsmarine tentait d'attribuer à ces vedettes.

Ce livre décrit en détail ce conflit naissant, en examinant l'évolution des navires impliqués et en couvrant leurs batailles, depuis les combats dans l'estuaire de la Tamise jusqu'aux préparatifs du Jour J.

Caractéristiques

Auteur :	Gordon Williamson
Présentation :	80 pages, 25 x 18 x 0.7 cm, broché
Illustration :	abondamment illustré de photos et dessins (en N&B et en couleurs)
Langue :	anglais
Editeur :	Osprey Publishing (GB, 2011)
Série :	Duel (34)
ISBN :	9781849084062

Kriegsmarine Coastal Forces (Osprey)

Bien que souvent négligées au profit des U-Boote ou des cuirassés, la Kriegsmarine était en grande majorité composée de petits navires des forces côtières. Ces bâtiments, parmi lesquels des dragueurs de mines, des torpilleurs, des patrouilleurs et des briseurs de blocus, ont rendu des services essentiels à l'Allemagne pendant la guerre, et nombre d'entre eux ont continué à servir pendant des décennies après la capitulation, notamment pour le déminage. Le yacht d'Hitler, l'Ostwind, faisait également partie de ces forces.

Ce livre révèle l'histoire des navires qui ont constitué l'épine dorsale de la Kriegsmarine et combine des anecdotes fascinantes, des informations techniques détaillées et des illustrations en couleur.

Caractéristiques

Auteur :	Gordon Williamson
Présentation :	48 pages, 25 x 18.5 x 0.5 cm, broché
Illustration :	abondamment illustré de photos et dessins (en N&B et en couleurs)
Langue :	anglais
Editeur :	Osprey Publishing (GB, 2009)
Série :	New Vanguard (151)
ISBN :	9781846033315

Schnellboot Type S-38 and S-100 (Super Drawings in 3D)

S-38 and S-100 E-boats class were German fast attack craft (Schnellboot in German) built for the Kriegsmarine during World War Two. The E-boats (a British designation using the letter E for Enemy) were defined by many naval experts as the best of their category.

This book describes the history, technology and deployment of these ships.

Caractéristiques

Auteur :	Carlo Cestra
Présentation :	90 pages, 30 x 21.5 x 1 cm, broché
Illustration :	dessins assistés par ordinateur et 3D en couleurs, photos en N&B, dessins à l'échelle
Langue :	anglais
Editeur :	Kagero Oficyna Wydawnicza (PL, 2018)
Série :	Super Drawings in 3D
ISBN :	9788365437716

E-Boat Threat

While land based aircraft could carry out offshore operations by day and destroyers and cruisers patrolled deeper waters, the ideal craft for use in coastal waters were motor boats armed with torpedoes and light guns. But with the exception of Italy, none of the major powers had more than a handful of these boats operational at the outbreak of war.

From a small beginning, large fleets of highly maneuverable motor torpedo boats were built up, particularly by Britain, Germany and the USA. They operated mainly at night, because they were small enough to penetrate minefields and creep unseen to an enemy's coastline and fast enough to escape after firing their torpedoes.
They fought in every major theatre of war, but the first real threat came in the North Sea and English Channel from German E-boats, crossing to attack Britain's vital convoys. Ranged against them in the 'battle of the little ships' were British MTBs and MGBs and, later, American PT boats.
They often fought hand to hand at closer quarters than any other kind of warship in a unique conflict that lasted right to the end of the war.

"E-boat Threat" describes the development of these deadly little craft, the training of their crews who were usually volunteers and the gradual evolution of tactics in the light of wartime experience.
Methods of defence are also related, which included the use of aircraft and destroyers as well as motor gunboats, sometimes acting under a unified command.

Caractéristiques

Auteur :	Bryan Cooper
Présentation :	144 pages, 24.5 x 16.5 x 2 cm, relié
Illustration :	25 photos en N&B
Langue :	anglais
Editeur :	Pen & Sword Books Ltd (GB, 2015)
ISBN :	9781473827837

German S-Boats (Ship Craft)

The subject of this volume is the Second World War German Navy's motor torpedo boats called Schnellboote, known to the Allies as E-Boats. One of the most effective coastal attack craft of the time, the type was built in large numbers and constantly improved as the war progressed, giving many variants to interest modellers.

With its unparalleled level of visual information - paint schemes, models, line drawings and photographs - this is simply the best reference for any modelmaker setting out to build one of these famous boats.

The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sister-ships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring colour profiles and highly-detailed line drawings and scale plans.
The modelling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit.
This is followed by an extensive photographic gallery of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales, and the book concludes with a section on research references - books, monographs, large-scale plans and relevant websites.

Caractéristiques

Auteur :	Steve Wiper
Présentation :	64 pages, 29.5 x 20.5 x 0.5 cm, broché
Illustration :	130 photos en N&B et en couleurs, dessins
Langue :	anglais
Editeur :	Seaforth Publishing (GB, 2012)
Série :	ShipCraft (6)
ISBN :	9781848321229

S-Boote - German E-boats in action 1939-1945

Too little has been written to date on Germany's "Schnellboote" in the Second World War. Known by the Allies as E-Boats (Enemy Boats) the S-Boote played havoc on Allied naval operations in the English Channel and elsewhere. Many of their captains were amongst the most decorated of any branch of the Kriegsmarine.

This highly detailed book examines all aspects of the S-Boote, from design to deployment and notes all the major engagements for which they are famous. As with all Histoire & Collections books, you are guaranteed a visual feast of excellent descriptive graphics and previously unseen photographs.

Caractéristiques

Auteur :	Jean Philippe Dallies-Labourdette
Présentation :	144 pages, 32 x 24 x 1.9 cm, relié
Illustration :	300 photos en N&B, 50 dessins en couleurs
Langue :	anglais
Editeur :	Histoire & Collections (F, 2006)
ISBN :	9782352500193

Schnellboote : A Complete Operational History

The Kriegsmarine's Schnellboote - fast attack boats or E-boats to the Allies - were the primary German naval attack units in coastal waters throughout the Second World War.
Operating close to their various bases they became a devastatingly effective weapon in nearly all the Kriegsmarine's theatres of war, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. It was in the English Channel, however, that they scored their most notable successes, destroying some forty warships and more than one hundred merchant ships.

In addition to interception and attack, they were also used for minelaying, landing sabotage troops and general escort duties. There has been, to date, no comprehensive operational history of the S-boat service in all the theatres in which it saw service, but due to the relatively small number of units it is possible to recount the duties and fates of each individual craft and in this book the author examines the career of each in detail.
In addition, operations alongside the commando units of the Kleinkampfverbande are covered.

As the War progressed, S-boats suffered from the increased Allied mastery of the seas and skies but they were a formidable foe right to the end; this book is the first to do full justice to their record of success

Caractéristiques

Auteur :	Lawrence Paterson
Présentation :	338 pages, 24.5 x 17 cm, relié
Illustration :	120 photos en N&B
Langue :	anglais
Editeur :	Seaforth Publishing (GB, 2015)
ISBN :	9781848320833

Schnellbootwaffe: Adolf Hitler's Guerrilla War at Sea - S-Boote 1939-45 - Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives (Images of War)

The Schnellbootwaffe was created in the early 1930s, before the Second World War, in concurrence with the regenerated Kriegsmarine, and young officers, most of whom learned their craft in the old Imperial Navy, would take responsibility for the operational use of these revolutionary vessels.
Working with the naval engineers of Lürssen Shipyard, the Germans designed combat weapons that were never surpassed by their opponents.

After the first series of Schnellboote were launched, constantly improved versions of these vessels would follow. The Schnellbootwaffe would achieve significant victories for the Kriegsmarine at the beginning of the war by using these vessels in high-level strategies, including a style of guerrilla warfare.
The British often call German torpedo boats E-boats, and these fast vessels were a genuine threat not only to coastal trade, but also to the movement of Allied ships after D-Day. Indeed, Admiral Rudolf Petersen's flotillas remained combat-ready until the very end, even after the balance of power was in favour of the Allies.

Allied air bombardment of German torpedo boat bases from 1944 onwards failed to destroy the offensive potential of the Schnellboote and their crews. The Allied disaster at Lyme Bay at the end of April 1944 shows how this guerrilla war at sea was still dangerous, even at this stage of the war. The Allied invasions plans were not yet known to the Germans, but Eisenhower learned a great deal from Lyme Bay and the Schnellbootwaffe was still potentially dangerous right until the end of the war.

This book tells the fascinating story about these special people, whose pirate spirit and guerrilla style of naval combat is reminiscent of the ancient pirates and their own way of warfare.

Caractéristiques

Auteur :	Hrvoje Spajić
Présentation :	184 pages, 24 x 18.5 x 1.3 cm, broché
Illustration :	150 photos en N&B
Langue :	anglais
Editeur :	Pen & Sword Books Ltd (GB, 2021)
Série :	Images of War
ISBN :	9781399091756

Schnell- und Torpedoboote - Deutsche und alliierte Einheiten 1939-1945 (Typenkompass)

Even before the First World War, the Royal Navy developed small boats that were to be used as dinghies by cruisers to their deployment locations on the coast.
During the war, their shallow draft meant that they could navigate the minefields off the German coast. The ships thus made a significant contribution to the war at sea in coastal waters.

Pages du livre "Schnell- und Torpedoboote - Deutsche und alliierte Einheiten 1939-1945"

In this volume, Ingo Bauernfeind presents German and Allied speedboats and torpedo boats from World War II. He describes their development, operational history and technical features in a compact but detailed manner. Each type is presented using a photo, a historical description and a technical data sheet.

Caractéristiques

Auteur :	Ingo Bauernfeind
Présentation :	128 pages, 20.5 x 14 cm, broché
Illustration :	100 photos en N&B et en couleurs
Langue :	allemand
Editeur :	Motorbuch Verlag (D, 2016)
Série :	Typenkompass
ISBN :	9783613039285