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The Real Cruel Sea

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UPC:
9781848844155
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2011-10-05
Author:
Richard Woodman
Language:
english
Edition:
Reprint
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For the British, the Battle of the Atlantic was a fight for survival. They depended on the safe transit of hundreds of convoys of merchant ships laden with food, raw materials and munitions from America to feed the country and to keep the war effort going, and they had to export manufactured goods to pay for it all. So Britains merchant navy, a disparate collection of private vessels, became the countrys lifeline, while its seamen, officially non-combatants, bravely endured the onslaught of the German U-boat offensive until Allied superiority overwhelmed the enemy.

In this important, moving and exciting book, drawing extensively on firsthand sources, the acclaimed maritime historian Richard Woodman establishes the importance of the British and Allied merchant fleets in the struggle against Germany.