Atlantic Nightmare
The longest continuous military campaign in World War II
'A brilliant and readable record of this battle.'
'Excellent strategic look at a mammoth struggle.'
Amazon reviews.
​
No battle lasted longer than the 2075 days of the Battle of the Atlantic. Few battles are so apparently perplexing in their outcome. There was nothing in the dark days of September 1939 to February 1943 to suggest that the Allies could defeat the U-boat menace. Yet two months later the U-boats were tamed. This book explores the tactics and strategy of the two sides and reveals how consistently admirals Raeder and Dönitz pursued ill-chosen strategies for the U-boat war. Central to their failure were their seven strategic errors which are presented in the book.
​
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Atlantic-Nightmare-continuous-military-campaign-ebook/dp/B08CBF3NSM
Grand Amiral Raeder inspecting a shipbuilding yard in 1942
Sir Samuel Hoare - Wiki Commons.
Karl Donitz
An Atlantic convoy as seen from a Sunderland aeroplane
U-47 returning from its attack on Scapa Flow
Officers on the bridge of a destroyer protecting convoyed merchant shipping
Graf Spee sinking
Edward Bowen who pioneered the development of air to surface radar
Torch landings on the Morocco coast
Bletchely Park where the German Enigma code was deciphered
An acoustic torpedo
A snorkel on a U-boat.
