U-Boats Attack - Softcover

Mallmann Showell, Jak P

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752461885 ISBN 13: 9780752461885

Publisher: The History Press, 2011

Synopsis

Readers can view the Battle of the Atlantic through U-boat periscopes thanks to incredible eyewitness accounts bringing to life the horror of this war below and above sea

 
Readers will taste the salt, smell the nauseating stench of the U-boats, and hear orders being whispered quietly while diving back in time to the horrendous inhumanity of the Battle of the Atlantic. The longest continuous military campaign of the Second World War, raging from 1939 to 1945, the Battle of the Atlantic saw the might of the Royal Navy pitted against the Kriegsmarine. The Germans' secret weapon was their fleet of U-boats—they had the largest fleet of submarines in the world, enabling them to play cat and mouse with the Allied forces to devastating effect. They would hunt in "wolf-packs" and would prey on merchant shipping and naval vessels. This startling book tells the story of this battle as viewed through the conning towers of these U-boats. It is written as the action unfolded, using surviving logs. 

About this title

About the Author:

Jak P. Mallmann Showell is a naval historian, photographer, and the author of more than 40 books on naval activity during World War II, including Hitler’s U-boat Bases and Wolfpacks at War.

About this edition

• Publisher: The History Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0752461885
• ISBN 13: 9780752461885
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240