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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.
©2009 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Business in Great Waters : |b the U-Boat Wars 1916-1945. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Index of Merchant VesselsIndex of U-boats; Index of Warships. | |
| 520 | |a 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, the Anglo-American entry into Europe in 1944 would have been impossible. John Terraine concentrates on the combatants themselves, both German and Allied, but does not overlook the three main factors in the equation - the political, the military and the technological, as well as the intelligence, the weapons and the d | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
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