The Battle of the Atlantic was one of the major turning points of World War II, and the very survival of Britain depended on its outcome. Fought largely between the German U-boats and Allied convoys, this deadly battle involved vast amounts of men, airplanes, ships and submarines fighting above, across and beneath thousands of miles of ocean. In the end, the Allies won - but only just. This book examines the battle from both sides. On the side of the Allies, ships of the Royal and Commonwealth navies and aircraft of the RAF played by far the greatest part in this battle, supported on the other side of the Atlantic by elements of the US and Canadian air forces and navies. The German Navy's U-boat force, and to a lesser extent its surface vessels, were the skilled and determined assailants who very nearly won the day. Following the formula adopted in his two previous books ("RAF: An Illustrated History" and "The Battle of Britain"), Roy Nesbit has written a short, but detailed, narrative of the battle, accompanied by a selection of some 200 archive photographs and paintings.
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ROY CONYERS NESBIT served as a navigator on Bristol Beauforts and Douglas Dakotas during the Second World War. He is author of over thirteen books including The Battle of Britain (Sutton, 2000) and RAF An Illustrated History from 191 (Sutton, 1998).
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Excellent History of the Battle of the Atlantic!,
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Churchill once said the only thing that frightened him during World War II was the U-boat menace. Well-known aviation historian Roy Nesbit revisits the fierce conflicts that were waged in the Atlantic from 1939 to 1945 in this comprehensive, well-illustrated volume from Sutton Publishing.
The Battle of the Atlantic was played out on a huge canvas, stretching from America to the European coastline and involving the air, naval and merchant marine arms of many nations. Nesbit takes a somewhat scholarly look at events, only occasionally naming individual units, vessels or crews involved in specific actions. Nevertheless BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC is a good read, an engrossing, well-researched account of German U-boats, battleships and air units pitted against the plodding Allied merchantmen and their naval and air escorts who provisioned England - and Russia - despite sometimes crippling losses. Nesbit's book benefits from having access to information formerly classified as well as use of his voluminous archive of photographs related to the subject. The book is bursting with 310 black & white and color photographs, wartime posters, maps and charts. Along with shots of major players in the Battle like Doenitz, Pound, Tovey, 'Johnny' Walker and U-boat aces Kretschmer, Schepke and Prien are many shots of 'grey wolves' at sea, under attack or in home port as well as Kriegsmarine & RN capital ships, Allied merchantmen aloft and in extremis, Coastal Command aircraft, their Luftwaffe countemporaries, Enigma machines, Leigh lights and so on. Also featured are nine striking artworks by Charles Thompson and Mark Postlethwaite. The Battle of the Atlantic has been the subject of many books. With its well-honed, comprehensive text and wealth of visuals, Nesbit's book stands out as one of the best single-volume histories on the subject.
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