WW2 U-Boat Handbook, Ship Identification 1198 pics, 1943/44 Submarine

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.

Ex-copy of the Command of the Baltic Sea Naval Station, Publications Administration

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 good interior condition
Extremities worn, about 60 pages at the back are somewhat creased at the right margin due to mechanical impact on the side of the book block, otherwise ok. Pages are very clean.
With 2 newspaper clippings included about light cruiser HMAS Sydney (D48), and battleship USS Oklahoma (BB-37).

All pages are complete.

Approx/Measurements: 6-3/4" x 5"  ~1.1 lbs.