Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunted 1942-1945 - Rilegato

Blair, Clay

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ISBN 10: 0679457429 ISBN 13: 9780679457428

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 1998

Riassunto

The sequel to Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters: 1939-1942 continues the story of Germany's U-Boat World War II campaign against the United States and Britain as the fortunes of war are reversed and the German navy begins to suffer devastating defeats. 15,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Clay Blair served in combat on a submarine in the Pacific, attended Tulane and Columbia universities, and became the national security correspondent for Time, Life, and The Saturday Evening Post. He has published hundreds of magazine articles and twenty-five books.  These include Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan, as well as biographies of Admiral H. G. Rickover; Generals Douglas MacArthur, Omar N. Bradley, and Matthew B. Ridgeway; and John F. Kennedy; and, more recently, a definitive account of the conflict in Korea, The Forgotten War. He lives with his wife on Washington Island, Wisconsin.

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lume of Clay Blair's magisterial, highly praised narrative history of the German submarine war against Allied shipping in World War II, The Hunters, 1939-1942, described the Battle of the Atlantic waged first against the British Empire and then against the Americas. This second and concluding volume, The Hunted, 1942-1945, covers the period when the fortunes of the German Navy were completely reversed, and it suffered perhaps the most devastating defeat of any of the German forces.
  
In unprecedented detail and drawing on sources never used before, Clay Blair continues the dramatic and authoritative story of the failures and fortunes of the German U-boat campaign against the United States and Great Britain. All the major patrols and sorties made by the Germans are described in detail and with considerable human interest: the Peleus and Laconia affairs; the capture at sea of U-505; the crisis of German command; the futile operations against the Americas; and the mounting and dev

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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679457429
• ISBN 13: 9780679457428
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 909