The U-Boat War
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The accepted historical narrative of the Second World War predominantly assigns U-boats to the so-called 'Battle of the Atlantic', almost as if the struggle over convoys between the new world and the old can be viewed in isolation from simultaneous events on land and in the air. This has become…
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The majority of books written about the German U-boat naval campaign in the Second World War focus on the Battle of the Atlantic.
A new approach by Lawrence Paterson challenges this narrative and makes the argument that the German U-boat Wolfpacks fought a truly global naval campaign, one that occurred during the entire wartime period 1939-1945.
Paterson also makes the argument that the operations by the U-Boats were not separate from the activities of other German service branches, but in concert with them to attain larger strategic goals.
He concludes that the ultimate failure of the U-Boats was due to…
From Arthur's list on the First and Second World Wars.
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