Hitler's forgotten flotillas : Kriegsmarine security forces / Lawrence Paterson.

"This study of the Kriegsmarine's Sicherungsstreitkräfte, their security forces, fills a glaring gap in the study of the German navy in World War Two. This wide array of vessels included patrol boats, minesweepers, submarine hunters, barrage breakers, landing craft, minelayers and even the...

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Main Author: Paterson, Lawrence (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Barnsley : Seaforth Publishing, a division of Pen & Sword Books, Ltd., 2017.
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505 0 |g 1.  |t Development of Naval Mine Warfare and Auxiliary Ships in the Kaiser's Navy --  |g 2.  |t Defending Germany's Coasts: Minesweepers, Vorpostenboote and U-Jager of the Kriegsmarine, 1939 -- 1940 --  |g 3.  |t Expanding Horizons: German Pyrrhic Victory in Norway and the Fall of France, 1940 --  |g 4.  |t Establishing the Security Divisions, 1941 --  |g 5.  |t Sun and Steel: The Security Forces move into North Africa and the Soviet Union, 1941 -- 1942 --  |g 6.  |t War in the North and West: The Security Flotillas in Western Europe, the Baltic and Norway, 1942 -- 1943 --  |g 7.  |t War in Southern Russia: The Security Forces in the Black Sea, July 1942 -- 1944 --  |g 8. The   |t Inland Seas': The Security Forces in the Mediterranean, Aegean and Tyrrhenian Seas, June 1942 -- December 1943 --  |g 9.The  |t Mediterranean, Adriatic and Aegean, January 1944 -- May 1945 --  |g 10.  |t Elimination: Allied Forces mount Operations against the Security Forces, 1944 -- 1945. 
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