Business in Great Waters : the U-Boat Wars 1916-1945.
Twice within 25 years Britain was threatened with starvation by the menace of the U-Boat. In this study of submarine warfare, the author explains why Winston Churchill wrote ""the only thing that ever frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril"". Until it had been overcome...
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Havertown :
Pen and Sword,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Maps Drawn by Chester Read; INTRODUCTION; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; PART I: THE FIRST ROUND; 1 Free From All Scruples; 2 The Most Formidable Thing; 3 Engage The Enemy More Closely; 4 Convoy Acted Like A Spell; 5 Slack Water; 6 Foiled Rather Than Defeated; 7 Small Advantages; 8 The Battle Done; PART II: INTERVAL; The Insidious Submarine; PART III: THE SECOND ROUND; 1 Dearth Of U-boats; 2 Nothing Of Major Importance; 3/i The Steep Atlantick; 3/ii The Very Nadir Of British Fortunes; 3/iii As Though The Defence Had Won.
- 4 By The Narrowest Of Margins5 A Roll Of Drums; 6 The Heartbeat Of The War; 7 We Had Lost The Battle; 8 Unconditional Surrender; NOTES; APPENDICES; A British, American and German Naval Ranks; B The German U-boats of World War I; C Gross Tonnage of Merchant Shipping Lost Through Enemy Action, to 11 November, 1918; D Shipping and U-boat Losses 1939-45, yearly and monthly; E U-boat Deployment in the Biscay Bases (July, 1943); F Shipping Losses in British Home Waters, 1939-45; G Analysis of U-boat Losses 1914-45; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; General Index; Index of Aircraft; Index of Convoys.
- Index of Merchant VesselsIndex of U-boats; Index of Warships.