Lawrence Paterson: The U-Boat War | Buch

Cover: 9781472848253 | The U-Boat War | A Global History 1939-45 | Lawrence Paterson | Buch

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Beschreibung

The accepted historical narrative of the Second World War predominantly assigns U-boats to the so-called 'Battle of the Atlantic', almost as if the struggle over convoys between the new world and the old can be viewed in isolation from simultaneous events on land and in the air. This has become an almost accepted error. The U-boats war did not exist solely between 1940 and 1943, nor did the Atlantic battle occur in seclusion from other theatres of action. The story of Germany's second U-boat war began on the first day of hostilities with Britain and France and ended with the final torpedo sinking on 7 May 1945. U-boats were active in nearly every theatre of operation in which the Wehrmacht served, and within all but the Southern Ocean. Moreover, these deployments were not undertaken in isolation from one another; instead they were frequently interconnected in what became an increasingly inefficient German naval strategy.

This fascinating new book places each theatre of action in which U-boats were deployed into the broader context of the Second World War in its entirety while also studying the interdependence of the various geographic deployments. It illustrates the U-boats' often direct relationship with land, sea and aerial campaigns of both the Allied and Axis powers, dispels certain accepted mythologies, and reveals how the ultimate failure of the U-boats stemmed as much from chaotic German military and industrial mismanagement as it did from Allied advances in code-breaking and weaponry.

Über den Autor

Lawrence Paterson

Zusammenfassung

Written by Lawrence Paterson, an expert in the field who has spent decades researching the subject and has dived many of the U-boat wrecks covered in this book including the wrecks of the escort and patrol boats in and around Brest Harbour.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Glossary
Introduction

Chapter One: Genesis
Chapter Two: War
Chapter Three: The Myth of the 'Happy Time'
Chapter Four: Diverging Objectives
Chapter Five: The Descent
Chapter Six: Sun and Snow
Chapter Seven: Drumbeat in the New World
Chapter Eight: Losing the Race
Chapter Nine: Tipping Point
Chapter Ten: Reinforcing Failure
Chapter Eleven: Total Commitment

Select Bibliography
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Geschichte
Jahrhundert:	20. Jahrhundert
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9781472848253
ISBN-10:	147284825X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Paterson, Lawrence
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße:	243 x 166 x 35 mm
Von/Mit:	Lawrence Paterson
Erscheinungsdatum:	14.04.2022
Gewicht:	0,709 kg

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