U-Boats Attack!

The Battle of the Atlantic Witnessed by the Wolf Packs

Jak P. Mallman Showell

• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2016
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9780750980746
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

Readers can view the Battle of the Atlantic through U-boat periscopes thanks to incredible eyewitness accounts bringing to life the horror of this war below and above sea
 
Readers will taste the salt, smell the nauseating stench of the U-boats, and hear orders being whispered quietly while diving back in time to the horrendous inhumanity of the Battle of the Atlantic. The longest continuous military campaign of the Second World War, raging from 1939 to 1945, the Battle of the Atlantic saw the might of the Royal Navy pitted against the Kriegsmarine. The Germans' secret weapon was their fleet of U-boats—they had the largest fleet of submarines in the world, enabling them to play cat and mouse with the Allied forces to devastating effect. They would hunt in "wolf-packs" and would prey on merchant shipping and naval vessels. This startling book tells the story of this battle as viewed through the conning towers of these U-boats. It is written as the action unfolded, using surviving logs. 

Table of contents

• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction: U-boat Logbooks
• 1. Commence Hostilities against England
• 2. Mining the Lion’s Den
• 3. Battles against Impossible Regulations
• 4. The Start of the Successful Time
• 5. Short-Range Surface Attacks at Night
• 6. On the Periphery of Action
• 7. Heading further West to the Edge of the Abyss
• 8. Sixty-four Dynamic Days of 1941 – Two Metamorphic Months
• 9. From the Wild Atlantic to the Calm Mediterranean
• 10. Wild Waters to the West of Gibraltar
• 11. The United States and Russia joins the War: Too Far, too Cold and too Hot
• 12. First Operations with a Purpose-Built Supply Submarine
• 13. 1942 – Closing the Air Gap of the Mid-Atlantic
• 14. The Biggest Convoy Battle of All Time
• Appendix: The Hitting Power of the U-boats in this Book
• Further Reading
• Picture Section