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This Third Reich photo book is called Kriegsmarine am Feind (War Navy Against The Enemy) and is subtitled "A Photo Documentary of the German Battle for Freedom At Sea". The author is Friedrich Meier and Verlag Erich Klinghammer published this photo book in Berlin in 1940.

After a foreword by Großadmiral Erich Johann Albert Raeder this 7 x 9-5/8 inch, 240 page hardcover book starts with pictures of examples of every vessel in the Kriegsmarine fleet: destroyers, minesweepers, PT cruisers, submarines, battleships, etc.

Sprinkled through these amazing photos are the announcements and designs of new decorations and medals such as the Zerstörer-Kriegsabzeichen (Destroyer War Badge) and the U-Boot Kriegsabzeichen (Submarine War Badge).

This is followed by hundreds of fabulous black & white photographs of the participation of the Nazi Navy during battles in the Polish and Norwegian campaigns in 1939 and 1940: destruction in and around Danzig, the sinking of enemy ships, sailors like sardines inside U-Boot quarters, Hitler awarding decorations to sailors, Rudolf Hess celebrating Christmas Eve aboard a warship, mines, navy ships transporting Gebirgsjäger, tanks and other materiel to Norway, Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine Raeder arriving by airplane in Oslo to take part in the parade for Hitler's birthday, the German capture of the British Channel Islands, General Dietl, Generalfeldmarschall Hermann Göring in Gotenhafen, Hitler and Göring at Compiègne to sign the French Surrender in June 1940, etc.

This 400+ photo book should be considered the finest kind of reference material on the Kriegsmarine! This 1940 hardcover edition of Kriegsmarine am Feind is complete and in very good little-used condition with its original 83 year old color dust jacket which shows only minor wear. Tight spine, no odor.