The Battle of the Atlantic : Hitler's Gray Wolves of the sea and the Allies' desperate struggle to defeat them /
The Battle of the Atlantic was the decisive naval battle of the Second World War. Beginning on 3 September 1939 and lasting until VE Day in 1945, the Battle of the Atlantic was the longest, largest and most complex naval battle in history. Comprehending this conflict at the time was probably an impo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2003]
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| Summary: | The Battle of the Atlantic was the decisive naval battle of the Second World War. Beginning on 3 September 1939 and lasting until VE Day in 1945, the Battle of the Atlantic was the longest, largest and most complex naval battle in history. Comprehending this conflict at the time was probably an impossible task; nearly as impossible is the task of making sense of the battle's immense complexities today. Yet this is where the importance of Andrew Williams's book lies: by thoughtfully leading his interviewees through the difficult phases of the battle, he gives us an effective, evocative yet lucid account of these momentous events. He accomplishes this task by offering us a wealth of new information, crucial to understanding the flow of events; through new eye-witness accounts from both sides of the battle, as they occurred, both from the German and the Allied sides, as well as the complexity of the Allied final victory. - Foreword. From 1932 until 1942, Hitler's U-boats threatened to starve Britain into submission. The ensuing struggle for control of the Atlantic trade routes was to become the longest, and one of the most bitterly fought, campaigns of World War II. |
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| Item Description: | Accompanies the BBC television series, The Battle of the Atlantic. |
| Physical Description: | 304 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-299) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0465091539 9780465091539 |