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The U-Boat Wars Paperback – March 4, 2002

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The remarkably effective submarines (U-boats) of the German Navy devastated the Allies during the first part of World War II and very nearly brought British and American sea forces to their knees. Military historian Hoyt here describes the years when U-boat "wolf packs" under the command of Admiral Karl Doenitz terrorized the Allies, sinking a third of Britain's battleships in 1939, and how the Allies came back, developing anti-submarine weapons that sent almost three-fourths of the U-boat crews to the bottom of the ocean. The U-Boat Wars is a gripping account of the battles at sea and the men―Doenitz, Churchill, sub-hunter Captain F. J. Walker, and others―who decided the fate of the Atlantic.

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272 pages
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Cooper Square Press
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March 4, 2002
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5.66 x 0.63 x 8.5 inches
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0815411928
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978-0815411925
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The main show here is the series of great convoy battles, during one of which the Germans sank 141,000 tons of Allied shipping with the loss of only one U-boat! Shocking., Publishers Weekly

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Drawing on German, British, and American archives, this, like Hoyt's many other war books, is a crackling narrative. It is factual, fast-paced, and gripping. He brings history alive and is always fresh and never dull., World War II History

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Edwin P. Hoyt is the author of Japan's War, 199 Days: The Battle for Stalingrad, and How They Won the War in the Pacific: Nimitz and His Admirals. He lives in Tokyo, Japan.

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Publisher : Cooper Square Press; 1st edition (March 4, 2002)
Language : English
Paperback : 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 0815411928
ISBN-13 : 978-0815411925
Item Weight : 11.7 ounces
Dimensions : 5.66 x 0.63 x 8.5 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #4,296,696 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #9,492 in Naval Military History
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Bev Thompson

HUGE Disappointment

Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2015

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If you like numbers, and figures such as "numbers of ships sunk," "total tonnage gone", "on day one, one ship was sunk, on day two, two ships were sunk", etc., then this book is for you. But if you prefer -- like us -- details of confrontations with the enemy, conversations with the U-boat commander and crew, etc., you too will be greatly disappointed.

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keith

big hole in these book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 29, 2012

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very good except for one thing we broke the uboat codes and made use of it to re-route convoys [some] and to fine and sink milch cows and uboats. it was used very carefully so as not to arouse suspension even so donitz was worried and asked the abwer if there codes had been broken, he was always re-assured the it was impossible. they got that one wrong!

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