num_pages: 256
description: As the Third Reich headed for destruction, German ingenuity in the naval field turned to unconventional weapons--midget submarines, radio-controlled explosive boats, and various forms of underwater sabotage-and the formation of small battle units known as Kleinkampfverbande. Utilizing an unusual range of devices, some barely beyond the experimental stage, and attacks regarded as little better than suicide missions, the organization was unique in drawing its personnel from the Navy, regular Army, and Waffen SS. Judged by their effect on the Allied advance, their successes were slight, but descriptions of their indomitable bravery make riveting reading. Pieced together from fragmentary sources, it is a largely untold story of some of the most desperate operations of the war.
language: English
title: Weapons of Desperation: German Frogmen and Midget Submarines of World War II
titlecomplete: Weapons of Desperation: German Frogmen and Midget Submarines of World War II
ratings_count: 9
publisher: Naval Inst Pr