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War at Sea
The Royal Navy's strategy in the Second World War, just as it had been in the Great War, was to protect the British Isles from attack, to keep the islands vital sea supply lanes open and to maintain communication with the far-flung British Empire and Allied forces fighting in distant theatres. From the early sinking of the pocket battleship Graf Spee in December 1939, through the Norway campaign, the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940, and the sinking of the Bismarck in 1941, the senior service more than played its part. It was aided by technological development such as the development of radar and Asdic, the echo sounding device for detecting submarines. Indeed, its greatest challenge lay under the waves, in countering and finally defeating the U-boat threat to our crucial food imports in the Battle of the Atlantic. Meanwhile, the loss of the Prince of Wales and Repulse to Japanese bombers, and the Battle of Midway in which Japan lost three Aircraft Carriers to the US, sounded the death knell for a century and a half of Britain's maritime supremacy. Even so, she ended the war still possessing by far the world's largest fleet.
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HITLER’S U-BOAT BASES
Written by the son of a U-boat engineer killed in the Battle of the Atlantic, this expert guide gives a comprehensive history of the massive concrete bases built to house the wolf packs in Germany and France. Illustrated with secret wartime maps, rare photographs and contemporary colour pictures ...
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HITLER’S GREY WOLVES
U-BOATS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN
The story of an unknown U-boat campaign - that carried out in the Indian and Pacific oceans by more than 40 of Donitz’s ‘grey wolves’ - and the sometimes choppy relationship between the Germans and their Japanese allies.
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BLOCKADE BUSTERS: Cheating Hitler’s Reich of Vital War Supplies
George Binney was a British businessman working in neutral Sweden who moved heaven and earth to ferry ball bearings and other essential war winning steel supplies through the German blockade in the darkest days of the war. This is the untold story of one man’s very vital war.
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XD OPERATIONS: Secret British Missions Denying Oil to the Nazis
First full revelation of a vital secret demolition operation to burn vast oil reserves along the coasts of Norway, Holland, Belgium and France and deny them to the invading Germans. A long-overdue tribute to the men who carried out a difficult and dangerous task on Churchill’s personal orders.
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YANAGI: The Secret Underwater Trade between German & Japan 1942-1945
An intriguing and previously unknown aspect of the Second World War is thoroughly uncovered in this fascinating book - the secret undersea trade in war material carried out between the far-flung Axis allies Germany Japan and Italy. Exciting and fascinating naval history at its very best.
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