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Decision in the Atlantic : the Allies and the longest campaign of the Second World War /

"The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest campaign of the Second World War. This volume highlights the scale and complexity of this bitterly contested campaign, one that encompassed far more than just attacks by German U-boats on Allied shipping. The team of leading scholars assembled in this...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Faulkner, Marcus (Editor ), Bell, Christopher M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : Andarta Books, an imprint of The University Press of Kentucky, [2019]
Colección:New perspectives on the Second World War.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The Atlantic war, 1939-1945: the case for a new paradigm / Marc Milner
  • The view from the top: Winston Churchill, British grand strategy, and the Battle of the Atlantic / Christopher M. Bell
  • "Immobilized by reason of repair" and by the choice "between Lithgow and Hitler" : class conflict in Britain's wartime merchant shipping repair yards / Kevin Smith
  • Brothers in arms : the Admiralty, the Air Ministry, and the Battle of the Atlantic / Tim Benbow
  • The Fleet Air Arm and trade defense, 1939-1944 / Ben Jones
  • All should be "A" teams: the development of group anti-submarine escort training in the British and Canadian navies during the Atlantic campaign / James Goldrick
  • "A most disagreeable problem" : British perceptions of the Kriegsmarine's aircraft carrier capability / Marcus Faulkner
  • Meat exports and the limits of wartime multilateralism : Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard's response to America's changing global role / Kevin Smith
  • The other critical convoy battles of 1943 : the eclipse of the Schnellboote in the English Channel and the North Sea / G.H. Bennett
  • The cruise of U-188 : Special Intelligence and the "liquidation" of Group Monsoon, 1943-1944 / David Kohnen.