Business in Great Waters: The U-Boat Wars 1916-1945 (Wordsworth Military Library)
by John Terraine
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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 show more - the political, the military and the technological, as well as the intelligence, the weapons and the d show lessTags
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John Terraine was educated at Stamford School and Keble College, Oxford. For sheer scholarship, the quality and accessibility of his writing and for his debunking of historical myths, Terraine was one of the outstanding military historians of the 20th century. He is known for his persistent defence of Douglas Haig and as the lead screenwriter on show more the BBC's landmark 1960s documentary The Great War. Other books written by John Terraine are The Smoke and The Fire and The Western Front 1914-1918, both published by Pen and Sword Books. show less
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- World War I (1914 | 1918); World War II (1939 | 1945)
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