1939 U-Boat Identification Handbook with 1023 Submarine Photos Pre-WWII

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Handbook of the Fleet / Navy 1939 Gilt on blue cloth, ship lists of all the major powers. Very rare pre-WWII German handbook of the Fleet with photographs 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 ships and Submarine U-Boats for recognition purpose. Depicted are Destroyer, Cruiser, Battleships, U-Boat, Minesweeper, aircraft carrier, oil tanker and all the other. This pre-war volume has been published in a very limited number of only 12,000 copies, thus it's much rarer than the wartime volumes. Hardcover 478 pages plus 44 pages of advertisements 1023 sketch profiles, photos, plans, illustrations and silhouettes 4 pages of flags in colour Index of all Kriegsmarine ships listed In good exterior and good interior condition Mild foxing to edges, name on front endpaper and rear pastedown, prelims ink stained at lower margin, a few ink strike throughs and annotations to vessels of the british empire, otherwise ok. Included is a clipping of German school sailing ship Gorch Fock and of an unknown destroyer. All pages are complete and tight in the binding. Approx/Measurements: 6-3/4" x 5" ~1.0 lbs. by Alexander Bredt Published by J. F. Lehmanns, Munich/Berlin SHIPPING OPTIONS Airmail shipping with recorded delivery to any destination in the world: $11.95 dewabit