U-Boats of the Second World War: Their Longest Voyages

U-Boats of the Second World War: Their Longest Voyages
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The legendary German U-boats wrought havoc throughout the oceangoing world during the Second World War. They plundered supply routes, enforced blockades and were also very effective in combat against Allied warships. That they did this against massive odds, under close scrutiny from the air forces and navies of the various Allied powers, is well known. The story that U-Boats of the Second World War: Their Longest Voyages tells is far more than that, however. It concentrates on how the U-boats existed, each no longer than four modern articulated lorries and carrying up to 60 crew, in cramped conditions. Focusing on the specially built craft that undertook the longest voyages, it looks at how the crews survived, how they lived and died and how they were able to carry out their missions in such difficult circumstances. Using many previously unpublished documents from the German U-boat museum to lend first hand authenticity to the bookâ€™s narrative, it also draws on much previously unpublished information from the Government Code and Cypher School Naval Histories at Bletchley Park. From initial success to eventual failure, this is a remarkable story of endurance, courage and comradeship in craft that terrified the world for the most critical period of the Second World War. The author, Jak P. Mallmann Showell, is himself the son of a U-boat diesel mechanic who disappeared in hostile waters two months before the author was born.
Country USA
Brand Fonthill Media
Manufacturer Fonthill Media
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 50 black and white photographs
ReleaseDate 2015-03-26
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781781551028

Country	USA
Brand	Fonthill Media
Manufacturer	Fonthill Media
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	50 black and white photographs
ReleaseDate	2015-03-26
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781781551028

U-Boats of the Second World War: Their Longest Voyages

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