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050 4 _aD781 .T27
100 1 _aTerraine, John.
245 1 0 _aBusiness in Great Waters :
_bthe U-Boat Wars 1916-1945.
260 _aHavertown :
_bPen and Sword,
_c2009.
264 4 _c2009
300 _a1 online resource (882 p.)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aCover; 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.
505 8 _a4 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.
505 8 _aIndex of Merchant VesselsIndex of U-boats; Index of Warships.
520 _aTwice 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
588 0 _aPrint version record.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xNaval operations
_xSubmarine.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xNaval operations, German.
650 7 _aHISTORY
_xMilitary
_xGeneral.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aMilitary operations, Naval
_xGerman.
650 7 _aMilitary operations, Naval
_xSubmarine.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aTerraine, John.
_tBusiness in Great Waters : The U-Boat Wars 1916-1945.
_dHavertown : Pen and Sword, �2009
_z9781848841352
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