In Great Waters 1939-45: The Epic Story of the Battle of the Atlantic 1939-45

In Great Waters 1939-45: The Epic Story of the Battle of the Atlantic 1939-45





The Battle of the Atlantic cost 30,000 allied merchant seamen their lives. This history traces the complete history of the battle, looking at all aspects of the conflict: in the air; on the water and below its surface. It tells the story from both sides, including first-hand accounts of individual participants, both Allied and German. It also looks at those behind the scenes: the politicians, the strategists, the scientists, the code breakers, and most remarkable of all Admiral von Donitz, the mastermind of Germany's U-boat campaign.The Battle of the Atlantic, which lasted for the length of World War II in Europe, claimed nearly 2,500 Allied vessels and a like number of aircraft. On the German side, three out of four sailors on the U-boat crews that caused much of that damage died, while the surface navy was almost wholly destroyed.

A great part of the battle in the western ocean was borne by Canadian sailors and airmen, who have received comparatively little attention in American and British histories of the campaign. Canadian historian Spencer Dunmore gives his compatriots their due in this well-written account, which includes interesting interpretations of the United States's Lend-Lease program of aid to Great Britain (which, Dunmore suggests, helped undermine Britain's postwar commercial and political power) and useful studies of German tactics, which gave great leeway to individual commanders and encouraged acts of initiative that cost the Allies dearly, especially at the war's outset. Dunmore traces the battle from the early days of Nazi wolf-pack domination of the seas to the destruction of the seemingly invincible battleship Bismarck; then to the Enigma decoding of German radio transmissions, which enabled the Allies to locate and destroy the "milk cows" that fueled the U-boats in midocean; and finally to the capitulation of the Nazi armada in May 1945.

Less comprehensive than Clay Blair's two-volume Hitler's U-Boat War, Dunmore's book nonetheless illuminates lesser-known aspects of the Battle of the Atlantic. --Gregory McNamee









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