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The battle of the Atlantic how the allies won the war

A gripping tale that transforms our understanding of the Second World War The Battle of the Atlantic was - though often overlooked - crucial to victory in the Second World War. If the German U-boats had prevailed, the maritime artery across the Atlantic would have been severed. Mass hunger would hav...

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Main Author: Dimbleby, Jonathan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Oxford University Press [2016]
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Atlantic Ocean
World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations > Submarine
World War, 1939-1945 > Naval Operations
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Table of Contents:
  • The phony war that wasn't
  • Caught hopping
  • Rash moves
  • The end of the beginning
  • U-boats on the rampage
  • Churchill declares "the Battle of the Atlantic"
  • Moving the goalposts again
  • America goes for it
  • Secret weapons
  • Fingers in the dyke
  • Shifting fortunes
  • Beating the drum
  • Overstretched everywhere
  • Disaster in the Arctic
  • Goading the bear
  • Dönitz seizes his chance
  • Changes at the top
  • "The Battle of the Air"
  • A very narrow escape
  • A dramatic turnabout
  • The reckoning
  • The beginning of the end
  • Epilogue: fates disentwined

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