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The listeners : U-boat hunters during the Great War / Roy R. Manstan.

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"Tells the story of the emergence of the submarine in 1914, its impact on warfare, and the efforts to combat it."--Provided by publisher.

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Manstan, Roy R. (Author)
Other title:	U-boat hunters during the Great War.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Middletown CT : Wesleyan University Press, [2018]
Series:	Garnet books.
Subjects:	United States Naval Engineering Experiment Station > History. World War, 1914-1918 > Naval operations > Submarine. Anti-submarine warfare > United States > History > 20th century. World War, 1914-1918 > Connecticut > New London. Hydrophone > History > 20th century. Submarines (Ships) > Germany > History > 20th century. World War, 1914-1918 > Aerial operations. World War, 1914-1918 > Campaigns > Atlantic Ocean. United States Naval Engineering Experiment Station. Anti-submarine warfare. Hydrophone. Military campaigns. Military operations, Aerial. Military operations, Naval > Submarine. Submarines (Ships) Atlantic Ocean. Connecticut > New London. Germany. United States. History.

Table of 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.