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Summary:
- "The first volume of the author's narrative history of the German submarine war against Allied shipping in World War II describes the Battle of the Atlantic waged first against the British Empire and then against the Americas. The second and concluding volume covers the period when the fortunes of the German Navy were completely reversed, and it suffered perhaps the most devastating defeat of any of the German forces. All the major patrols and sorties made by the Germans are described in detail and with considerable human interest: the Peleus and Laconia affairs; the capture at sea of U-505; the crisis of German command; the futile operations against the Americas; and the mounting and devastating losses that, in effect, entirely destroyed the German submarine service. Amid the riveting accounts of battles at sea in Volume I, postulates that the German U-boat peril in the Atlantic has been "vastly overblown" in previously published histories and memoirs of that naval struggle, as well as in films. As a consequence, a false mythology about the effectiveness of U-boats has taken root, and in order to clearly and fully understand World War II, one must put the U-boat threat into proper perspective. Blair does not neglect the scientific developments of the U-boat war: radar and radar detectors, active and passive sonar, Axis encoding machines and exotic Allied decoding machines, high-frequency direction finding (Huff Duff), Hedgehogs, depth charges, and sophisticated U-boat torpedoes." -- adapted from publisher description.
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Table of Contents:
- v. 1. The hunters, 1939-1942
- v. 2. The hunted, 1942-1945.
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Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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Call Numbers:
- D781 .B53 1996
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ISBNs:
- 0394588398 (v.1) [Invalid]
0679457429 (v.2)
9780679457428 (v.2)
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Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 96002275
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OCLC Numbers:
- 34149855