Customer Review: A good book for the researcher. No stories just the facts. The text is laid out like a computer file. From the beginnning of WWII until the end, each engagement by a USN submarine is documented. Location, date and time, method of attack, shots fired, target type and size, and result. Japanese... more info
Customer Review: Everyone seems to agree Axis Submarine Successes of World War II by Jurgen Rohwer is the ultimate published source for attacks and sinkings by German, Italian, and Japanese subs during 1939-1945. The original version, published in 1983, was updated in a new edition in 1999, and that's the current... more info
Customer Review: A mediocre book full of inconsistencies and inaccuracies ....and unfortunately.......coverage is primarily concerned with British Sub Ops in WWII...Coverage of other nation's Sub Ops is minimal.....
Customer Review: This is not a book one would sit down and read in the expectation of being entertained by the content. It is a book full of facts and figures where very few people are ever likely to admit to having read it all. Furthermore, there are no photographs and no illustrations. What it does contain,... more info
Customer Review: The definitive work on submarine attacks during WWII in the Pacific. Alden has left no stone unturned to accurately determine the Allied submarine and the Japanese ship under attack and the results. His earlier work of 1989 has been improved with access to secret (ULTRA) messages sent during WWII.