German Navy Books

Kaplan, P. and J. Currie: 1999 Mittler Berlin, hardcover with dustjacket 240 pages, with many photos. “Wolfsrudel. U-Boot-Krieg 1939–1945” portrays the daily life, combat operations, and psychological strain of German U-boat crews in the...

Schultz-Naumann, J: 1985 München, hardcover with dust jacket, 351 pages, illustrated. Unter Kaisers Flagge traces the history of Germany’s colonial possessions in the Pacific and China, examining how imperial ambitions, naval presence,...

Kruska, Emil und E. Rossler: 1969 Lehmann München, softcover, 216 pages + plus photo plates. Walter-U-Boote by Emil Kruska and Eberhard Rössler is a detailed technical and historical study of the German experimental “Walter” submarines,...

Collective: 1941 Germany, softcover, 144 pages, illustrated. An illustrated reference work that lists German warships with brief notes on their names , types and fates up to the early Second World War. It serves as a compact,...

Hirschfeld, W: 1982 Wien, hardcover with dust jacket, 384 pages, illustrated. Feindfahrten is the wartime diary of U-boat radio operator Wolfgang Hirschfeld, describing in vivid detail his patrols on U 109 and later U 234 between 1940...

Burchartz, M: 1933 Hamburg, hardcover, 127 pages. Photobook. Matrosen, Soldaten, Kameraden is a propaganda photo book that glorifies the German Reichsmarine and presents naval service as an honorable, comradely way of life in the early...

Stern, R.C.: 2004 Squaron/signal, softcover, 50 pages. “German Battleships of World War Two in Action” by Robert C. Stern describes the design, development, and combat careers of the Deutschland ‑, Scharnhorst ‑ and Bismarck ‑class...

Connelly, G. and D.L.Krakow.: 2013 Squadron Signal USA, softcover, 57 pages. An illustrated technical history of the German Kriegsmarine’s fast attack craft (S‑Boote), describing their development, combat operations and variants from...

Muller, W: 1996 Koehler Hamburg, hardcover with dustjacket 179 pages, with many photo's. Wolfgang Müller documents the dramatic maritime events in the Baltic Sea during the final months of World War II, focusing on the mass evacuation of...

Steinberg, J: 1965 London, hardcover, no dustjacket 240 pages with photo's. Jonathan Steinberg analyzes how Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz designed and promoted a major German battle fleet as a political instrument to challenge British naval...

Brommy, R: 1985 Bremen, hardcover with dustjacket 623 pages, illustrated. About the ships, their technics and handling. Facsimile of the 1878 edition. “Die Marine” by Karl Rudolf Brommy and Heinrich von Littrow is a comprehensive...

Goerne, A. von: 1935 Mittler Duitsland, softcover 121 pages, illustrated. “Die Kriegsflotten der Welt und ihre Kampfkraft” by Adalbert R. von Goerne is a 1935 survey of the major foreign war fleets of the interwar period, analyzing their...

Shankland, P. and A. Hunter: 1963 Munchen, hardcover with dustjacket 180 pages, with photos. Factual account of the audacious 1942 Allied convoy operation through the Mediterranean to relieve the besieged island of Malta during the...

Bekker, C: 1999 Augsburg, Hardcover 267 pages. Cajus Bekker describes the large‑scale evacuation across the Baltic Sea in the final months of the Second World War, during which German naval forces rescued around two million refugees and...

Steinberg, J: 1965 UK, hardcover 240 pages, with photos. About Tirpitz and the rise of the German Navy. In good condition

Koop, G. and K.P. Schmolke: 2002 Bonn, hardcover with dustjacket 174 pages. with photos, plans etc. A detailed study of the German Imperial Navy’s large cruisers from SMS Kaiserin Augusta up to SMS Blücher, describing their design,...

Koop, G. and K.P. Schmolke 1993 Bonn, hardcover with dustjacket 294 pages, with photo's and plans of the ships. Illustrated technical and operational history of the German “pocket battleships” Deutschland/Lützow, Admiral Scheer and...

Breyer, S: 1977 Graefe Munchen, hardcover with dustjacket 175 pages, with many photos of the large fighting ships. photo-documentation of British and German capital ships, presenting their development from the pre-dreadnought era through...

Breyer, S: 1978 Graefe Munchen, hardcover with dustjacket 175 pages, with many photos of the large fighting ships. This volume is an illustrated technical survey of the capital ships of the United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese...

Brustat-Naval, F: 2001 Koehler Verlag, hardcover 262 pages, with photos. 1945 Ostsee. The massive German naval evacuation across the Baltic Sea in early 1945, during which about two million soldiers and civilians were carried to the west...

Schon, H.: 1992 Motorbuch Verlag, hardcover 696 pages, with photo's. detailed documentary account of the mass evacuation of more than two million German civilians and soldiers across the Baltic Sea in 1944–1945, using an extensive...

Potter, J.D.: 1970 UK, hardcover with dustjacket 235 pages, with photo's. The Break-out of the German Battleships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, E Prinz Eugen. WW2. The book econstructs the dramatic 1942 dash of German battleships from Brest...

Rasenack, F.W.: 1999 Koehler Hamburg, hardcover 139 pages, with photos. The diary of the Captain of The Graf Spee till her sinking in the bay of the Rio Plata Brasil. ISBN 9783782207713 In very good condition. German language

Pfefferle, E: Reissued from 1985, bound in a blue binding. The text is easy to read (not Gothic), The series Kameraden zur See by Ernst Pfefferle is a multi‑volume collection of first‑hand stories and photographs about life and service...