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The listeners : U-boat hunters during the Great War / Roy R. Manstan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manstan, Roy R., author.
- Series:
- Garnet books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States Naval Engineering Experiment Station--History.
- United States Naval Engineering Experiment Station.
- World War, 1914-1918--Naval operations--Submarine.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Sea control.
- Anti-submarine warfare--United States--History--20th century.
- Anti-submarine warfare.
- World War, 1914-1918--Connecticut--New London.
- Hydrophone--History--20th century.
- Hydrophone.
- Submarines (Ships)--Germany--History--20th century.
- Submarines (Ships).
- History.
- Germany.
- World War, 1914-1918--Aerial operations.
- World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Atlantic Ocean.
- Military campaigns.
- Military operations, Aerial.
- Military operations, Naval--Submarine.
- Atlantic Ocean.
- Connecticut--New London.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 336 pages ; 25 cm.
- Other Title:
- U-boat hunters during the Great War
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown CT : Wesleyan University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Tells the story of the emergence of the submarine in 1914, its impact on warfare, and the efforts to combat it."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Preface: Submarine warfare: its genesis in Connecticut
- Introduction: The war to end all wars
- Part 1. 1914-1916
- Predator and prey
- The Firth of Forth
- Sighs of a lovesick mermaid
- Hunting submarines from shore
- A game of hide and seek
- Lusitania
- America awakens
- Preparing for the inevitable
- Part 2. 1917
- America enters the war
- Crossing the Atlantic
- The first tentative steps
- Physics pure and simple
- A sound detector of exceeding delicacy
- From the laboratory to sea
- Matters of life and death
- A "probable" first kill
- Part 3. 1918
- Coldest winter on record
- The Naval Reserve Flying Corps
- Listeners in the sky
- The crazy American; U-boats beware
- Invisible light and other magic
- U-boats westward to America
- America eastward to the war
- Listeners at the front and armistice
- Epilogue: the war that did not end all wars.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Manstan, Roy R., author. Listeners
- ISBN:
- 9780819578358
- 0819578355
- OCLC:
- 1030394911
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