LEADER 03845nam 2200613 450 001 9910458525903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4738-1292-5 010 $a1-78383-360-2 035 $a(CKB)2550000001314470 035 $a(EBL)1718461 035 $a(OCoLC)881887675 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001291426 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11708747 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001291426 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11246133 035 $a(PQKB)11398783 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1718461 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1718461 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10884701 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL617620 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001314470 100 $a20140628h20092009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBusiness in great waters $ethe U-boat wars 1916-1945 /$fJohn Terraine 210 1$aSouth Yorkshire, England :$cPen & Sword Maritime,$d2009. 210 4$dİ2009 215 $a1 online resource (882 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84884-135-3 311 $a1-306-86369-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Maps Drawn by Chester Read""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Abbreviations""; ""PART I: THE FIRST ROUND""; ""1 Free From All Scruples""; ""2 The Most Formidable Thing""; ""3 Engage The Enemy More Closely""; ""4 Convoy Acted Like A Spell""; ""5 Slack Water""; ""6 Foiled Rather Than Defeated""; ""7 Small Advantages""; ""8 The Battle Done""; ""PART II: INTERVAL""; ""The Insidious Submarine""; ""PART III: THE SECOND ROUND""; ""1 Dearth Of U-boats""; ""2 Nothing Of Major Importance"" 327 $a""3/i The Steep Atlantick""""3/ii The Very Nadir Of British Fortunes""; ""3/iii As Though The Defence Had Won""; ""4 By The Narrowest Of Margins""; ""5 A Roll Of Drums""; ""6 The Heartbeat Of The War""; ""7 We Had Lost The Battle""; ""8 Unconditional Surrender""; ""NOTES""; ""APPENDICES""; ""A British, American and German Naval Ranks""; ""B The German U-boats of World War I""; ""C Gross Tonnage of Merchant Shipping Lost Through Enemy Action, to 11 November, 1918""; ""D Shipping and U-boat Losses 1939-45, yearly and monthly""; ""E U-boat Deployment in the Biscay Bases (July, 1943)"" 327 $a""F Shipping Losses in British Home Waters, 1939-45""""G Analysis of U-boat Losses 1914-45""; ""SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""General Index""; ""Index of Aircraft""; ""Index of Convoys""; ""Index of Merchant Vessels""; ""Index of U-boats""; ""Index of Warships"" 330 $aTwice within 25 years Britain was threatened with starvation by the menace of the U-Boat. In this study of submarine warfare, the author explains why Winston Churchill wrote ""the only thing that ever frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril"". Until it had been overcome, the Anglo-American entry into Europe in 1944 would have been impossible. John Terraine concentrates on the combatants themselves, both German and Allied, but does not overlook the three main factors in the equation - the political, the military and the technological, as well as the intelligence, the weapons and the d 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xNaval operations$xSubmarine 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xNaval operations, German 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xNaval operations$xSubmarine. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xNaval operations, German. 676 $a940.5451 700 $aTerraine$b John$0940683 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458525903321 996 $aBusiness in great waters$92121266 997 $aUNINA