04049cam a2200517 i 4500 ocn881887675 OCoLC 20231102101548.0 m o d cr |n||||||||| 140628s2009 xx ob 001 0 eng d 9781848841352 AU@ 000055990346 DEBBG BV044068987 (OCoLC)881887675 EBLCP eng pn EBLCP E7B CCO OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO COO YDXCP OCLCF OCLCQ COCUF MOR PIFAG ZCU MERUC OCLCQ U3W STF NRAMU ICG VTS OCLCQ VT2 OCLCQ WYU TKN OCLCO DKC OCLCQ UKAHL OCLCQ RECBK OCL OCLCO OCLCQ D781 .T27 Terraine, John. Business in Great Waters : the U-Boat Wars 1916-1945. Havertown : Pen and Sword, 2009. 2009 1 online resource (882 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Maps Drawn by Chester Read; INTRODUCTION; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; PART I: THE FIRST ROUND; 1 Free From All Scruples; 2 The Most Formidable Thing; 3 Engage The Enemy More Closely; 4 Convoy Acted Like A Spell; 5 Slack Water; 6 Foiled Rather Than Defeated; 7 Small Advantages; 8 The Battle Done; PART II: INTERVAL; The Insidious Submarine; PART III: THE SECOND ROUND; 1 Dearth Of U-boats; 2 Nothing Of Major Importance; 3/i The Steep Atlantick; 3/ii The Very Nadir Of British Fortunes; 3/iii As Though The Defence Had Won. 4 By The Narrowest Of Margins5 A Roll Of Drums; 6 The Heartbeat Of The War; 7 We Had Lost The Battle; 8 Unconditional Surrender; NOTES; APPENDICES; A British, American and German Naval Ranks; B The German U-boats of World War I; C Gross Tonnage of Merchant Shipping Lost Through Enemy Action, to 11 November, 1918; D Shipping and U-boat Losses 1939-45, yearly and monthly; E U-boat Deployment in the Biscay Bases (July, 1943); F Shipping Losses in British Home Waters, 1939-45; G Analysis of U-boat Losses 1914-45; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; General Index; Index of Aircraft; Index of Convoys. Index of Merchant VesselsIndex of U-boats; Index of Warships. Twice within 25 years Britain was threatened with starvation by the menace of the U-Boat. In this study of submarine warfare, the author explains why Winston Churchill wrote ""the only thing that ever frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril"". Until it had been overcome, the Anglo-American entry into Europe in 1944 would have been impossible. John Terraine concentrates on the combatants themselves, both German and Allied, but does not overlook the three main factors in the equation - the political, the military and the technological, as well as the intelligence, the weapons and the d Print version record. World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations Submarine. World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, German. HISTORY Military General. bisacsh Military operations, Naval German. Military operations, Naval Submarine. Print version: Terraine, John. Business in Great Waters : The U-Boat Wars 1916-1945. Havertown : Pen and Sword, �2009 9781848841352 ebrary http://site.ebrary.com/id/10884701 ProQuest Ebook Central https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=1718461 VLeBooks http://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=none&isbn=9781783833603 VLeBooks http://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=none&isbn=9781473812925 http://VH7QX3XE2P.search.serialssolutions.com/?V=1.0&L=VH7QX3XE2P&S=JCs&C=TC0001291426&T=marc&tab=BOOKS BATCHLOAD lcc BK 0 NO HOLDINGS IN GHUCC - 534 OTHER HOLDINGS 22 22 0 0 lcc 0 0 GAFC GAFC REF 2023-11-02 0 D781 .T27 2023-0013 2023-11-02 10:16:58 1 2023-11-02 BK