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Atlantic Escorts - Ships, Weapons & Tactics in World War II (Paperback)
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Atlantic Escorts - Ships, Weapons & Tactics in World War II (Paperback)
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List price R513
Loot Price R473
Discovery Miles 4 730
You Save R40 (8%)
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Winston Churchill famously claimed that the submarine war in the
Atlantic was the only campaign of the Second World War that really
frightened him. If the lifeline to north America had been cut,
Britain would never have survived; there could have been no
build-up of US and Commonwealth forces, no D-Day landings, and no
victory in western Europe. Furthermore, the battle raged from the
first day of the war until the final German surrender, making it
the longest and arguably hardest-fought campaign of the whole war.
The ships, technology and tactics employed by the Allies form the
subject of this book. Beginning with the lessons apparently learned
from the First World War, the author outlines inter-war
developments in technology and training, and describes the later
preparations for the second global conflict. When the war came the
balance of advantage was to see-saw between U-boats and escorts,
with new weapons and sensors introduced at a raid rate. For the
defending navies, the prime requirement was numbers, and the most
pressing problem was to improve capability without sacrificing
simplicity and speed of construction. The author analyses the
resulting designs of sloops, frigates, corvettes and destroyer
escorts and attempts to determine their relative effectiveness.
While the basic characteristics of these ships are well known, this
was the first book to look at their cost-effectiveness in terms of
anti-submarine warfare. Based on a lifetime's experience of
designing warships, the author's fascinating insights, presented in
this new softcover edition, will be of interest to enthusiasts and
valuable to naval historians alike.
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