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This book contains the U-boats situations and trends written by the
staff of the Admiralty's Operational Intelligence Centre during the
Second World War. Based largely on communications intelligence, the
U-boat situations and trends were designed to inform a small number
of senior officers and high officials of the latest events and
developments in the Allied war against the U-boats. The Battle of
the Atlantic and the war against the U-boats was the longest and
the most complex naval battle in history. In this huge conflict
which sprawled across the oceans of the world the U-boats sank
2,828 Allied merchant ships while the Allies destroyed more than
780 German U-boats. These documents relate on a weekly, and in some
cases a daily, basis exactly what the Allies knew concerning the
activities of the U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic.
This book contains the U-boats situations and trends written by the
staff of the Admiralty's Operational Intelligence Centre during the
Second World War. Based largely on communications intelligence, the
U-boat situations and trends were designed to inform a small number
of senior officers and high officials of the latest events and
developments in the Allied war against the U-boats. The Battle of
the Atlantic and the war against the U-boats was the longest and
the most complex naval battle in history. In this huge conflict
which sprawled across the oceans of the world the U-boats sank
2,828 Allied merchant ships while the Allies destroyed more than
780 German U-boats. These documents relate on a weekly, and in some
cases a daily, basis exactly what the Allies knew concerning the
activities of the U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic.
This book contains the U-boats situations and trends written by the
staff of the Admiralty's Operational Intelligence Centre during the
Second World War. Based largely on communications intelligence, the
U-boat situations and trends were designed to inform a small number
of senior officers and high officials of the latest events and
developments in the Allied war against the U-boats. The Battle of
the Atlantic and the war against the U-boats was the longest and
the most complex naval battle in history. In this huge conflict
which sprawled across the oceans of the world the U-boats sank
2,828 Allied merchant ships while the Allies destroyed more than
780 German U-boats. These documents relate on a weekly, and in some
cases a daily, basis exactly what the Allies knew concerning the
activities of the U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic.
This book contains the U-boats situations and trends written by the
staff of the Admiralty's Operational Intelligence Centre during the
Second World War. Based largely on communications intelligence, the
U-boat situations and trends were designed to inform a small number
of senior officers and high officials of the latest events and
developments in the Allied war against the U-boats. The Battle of
the Atlantic and the war against the U-boats was the longest and
the most complex naval battle in history. In this huge conflict
which sprawled across the oceans of the world the U-boats sank
2,828 Allied merchant ships while the Allies destroyed more than
780 German U-boats. These documents relate on a weekly, and in some
cases a daily, basis exactly what the Allies knew concerning the
activities of the U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic.
Signals intelligence played a vital role in the Allied defeat of
the U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic. This book presents
documents which show the role of signals intelligence during the
Battle of the Atlantic. Focusing on the collection, analysis, and
employment of signals intelligence materials by the Royal and
United States navies during the Second World War, this volume
throws new light on how the Allies obtained victory over the
U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic.
Made up of members of the Coldstream and Scots Guards, British
yeomanry cavalry regiments, New Zealanders, South Africans, and
Indian Army men, the Long Range Desert Group was perhaps the most
effective of all the "special forces" established by the Allies
during World War II. It was able to go thousands of miles into
enemy territory, well-armed and carrying its own supplies of
petrol, food and even water to last for weeks at a time, something
previously unheard of. Using experience acquired in World War I and
inter-war exploration travels, the LRDG thus developed the ability
to appear almost anywhere in the desert to carry out almost every
type of ground reconnaissance mission possible in desert warfare,
exploring and mapping the terrain, transporting agents behind enemy
lines or determining the strength and location of enemy forces with
an extraordinary degree of accuracy and detail. Equally important
were their skills in the art of desert navigation, demonstrated in
the outflanking of the enemy during the Allied advance from El
Alamein westward to Tunisia, as led by the LRDG. Through meticulous
research in original archival material, this book tells the
extraordinary story of how a relatively small number of dedicated
men developed the methods and techniques for crossing by motor
vehicle the depths of the then unmapped and seemingly impassable
great Western Desert, during the British Army's North African
Campaign of 1940-43. Their tactics, techniques and remarkable
success in desert warfare continue to make them of great interest
to the student of military affairs. Likewise, as it seeks to answer
how the deep desert can best be used for military purposes, this
study is pertinent to today's military operations, perhaps more so
than at any time since World War II.
Showing the complex interaction of strategy, logistics,
administration, and economics, Syrett's pioneering text brings to
light some basic causes for the ultimate failure of the British war
effort during the American War of Independence. This war effort was
fatally compromised by the British need to support a great army and
a large naval force in the western hemisphere while at the same
time facing a coalition of maritime powers on the European
continent.
During the American Revolutionary War, Great Britain's Royal Navy
faced foes that included, in addition to American forces, the
navies of France, Spain and the Netherlands. In this operational
history of a period that proved to be a turning point for one of
the world's great naval powers, David Syrett presents a saga of
battles, blockades, great fleet cruises and, above all, failures
and lost opportunities. He explains that the British government
severely underestimated the Americans' maritime strength and how
that error led to devastating consequences. The seemingly
invincible navy failed to muster even one decisive victory during
the extensive naval conflict. Noting the complex reasons for
British failure in European waters, Syrett lays primary blame at
the feet of Britain's political leadership. He describes how Lord
North, the first lord of the Treasury and head of government,
abdicated control of Britain's military to individual members of
the cabinet. Syrett suggests that constant vacillations in policy
and strategy, which resulted from power shifts among the cabinet
ministers, prevented North's government from formulating a
comprehensive wartime strategy or providing the Royal navy with the
strategic guidance to launch a successful campaign. Syrett
concludes that Britain's inability to gain naval superiority in
European waters had a profound effect on the outcome of the
American Revolutionary War. He demonstrates how the Royal Navy's
failure to hunt down and destroy American blockade runners allowed
Yankee rebels easy access to European arms and munitions. He also
shows that the inability of the British to defeat French and
Spanish naval power off the Continent gave Bourbon monarchies the
means to aid American naval forces and to conduct naval operations
against the British in such areas as the West Indies and the Indian
Ocean.
The Defeat of the German U-Boats explains the significance and the
outcome of World War II's most important naval campaign in the
European theater-the air and sea battle that ended Germany's bid to
sever Allied supply lines in the Atlantic. David Syrett's
comprehensive account offers a detailed analysis of the effort to
stop German U-boat attacks on Allied merchant vessels, which by
1943 ranked as the Allies' top priority in their strategy to defeat
Hitler's forces. Syrett argues that the Germans were unable to
match Allied communication, technological, and tactical advances
and that the Allies prevailed largely because of their skill in
utilizing the material and intelligence resources at their
disposal. Beginning with a detailed description of the U-boat,
Syrett discusses the weaponry developed by the Allies to stop this
destructive craft. He uses intelligence information-released
decades after the war-to plot the progression of each Allied
convoy, German U-boat assault, and Allied response. Crediting the
Allied victory with keeping Britain in the war and making possible
the 1944 invasion of northwest Europe, Syrett emphasizes the Battle
of the Atlantic's pivotal role in determining the war's outcome.
Overbearing, avaricious and difficult, yet talented and ambitious,
George Brydges Rodney has never attracted much sympathy or
understanding. He was nevertheless an original thinker and one of
the great admirals of the eighteenth century. The contents of this
volume, the first of three, document his career from 1742 until
1763 - his private and political life. His early years as a captain
were spent in the severe conditions of the North Sea and in taking
privateers in the western approaches. During the peace after 1748
he was Governor of Newfoundland and in the Seven Years' War
blockaded Le Havre before going, as a flag officer, to command in
the Leeward Islands where he participated in the capture of
Martinique. This volume also contains letters to his wife which
indicate, against past opinion, that Rodney had a heart.
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