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Hunters and Killers - Volume 1: Anti-Submarine Warfare from 1776 to 1943 (Hardcover)
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Hunters and Killers - Volume 1: Anti-Submarine Warfare from 1776 to 1943 (Hardcover)
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Hunters and Killers is the first comprehensive history of all
aspects of anti-submarine warfare (ASW) from its beginnings in the
18th century through the important role of present anti-submarine
systems and operations. Published in two volumes, the work
discusses anti-submarine warfare operations in World War I, World
War II, the Cold War, and today. In addition to tactical and
strategic narratives of major ASW campaigns, the work covers the
evolution of ASW sensors, weapons, platforms, and tactics. This
first volume looks at the often ignored reaction to the earliest
submersible attack on British warships in 1776 to the first,
primitive ASW actions of World War I. World War I saw the Germans
use U-boats to devastate British shipping, nearly driving the
country out of the war. Here the authors look at the development of
the innovative, but rudimentary sensors and weapons that the Allies
used to counter the U-boat threats in the Atlantic and
Mediterranean theaters. Still, the U-boats were never completely
defeated in the Great War, and the ensuing chapters about the two
decades between the world wars narrate the development of sonar,
radar, and ASW ships, as well as changing political attitudes
toward undersea warfare. The remainder of the first volume covers
the first half of World War II's Battle of the Atlantic, from
September 1939 to the U-boat crisis in the spring of 1943. This
section discusses the influence of intelligence, gained mainly
through cryptography, on the Battle of the Atlantic. Polmar and
Whitman have created a thorough, well-researched reference for
anyone interested in the development of ASW.
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