WW2 U-Boat Handbook, Ship Identification 1198 pics, 1943/1944 Submarine U-Boot

Description

Handbook of the Fleet / Navy 1943/44
Gilt on boards and spine, warship lists of all the major powers.
Used to identify shipping before engagement - helps to avoid scoring any own goals!! Photographs and sillhouettes of all known naval shipping worldwide. It also gives other essential data like displacement - tonnage, speed in knots, armaments, armour and depth of keel for any identified target- without which a torpedo firing solution could not be calculated.
An important book used on all German Warships and Submarine U-Boats throughout the war. Depicted are Destroyer, Cruiser, Battleships, U-Boat, Minesweeper, aircraft carrier, oil tanker and all the other.
This is the last wartime edition, and the rarest among all volumes.
Hardcover
596 pages
1198 sketch profiles, photos and plans,
illustrations and silhouettes
4 pages of flags in colour
Index of all Kriegsmarine ships listed
In good exterior and very good interior condition
Crooked spine, shelf wear to boards, name on fly leaf, else ok.
Pages are clean.
With 2 newspaper clippings included about aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) and USS Utah (BB-31).
All pages are complete.
Approx/Measurements: 6-3/4" x 5"  ~1.1 lbs.
by Alexander Bredt
Published by J. F. Lehmanns Publisher, Munich/Berlin
The annotations and markings shown in the photo gallery below are from a previous copy.
The copy in this offer is clean with no markings and annotations, else identical!
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