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Hitlers UBoat War: The Hunters, 19391942 Modern Library War Blair, Clay

His monumental workis the most thorough study of the Uboat campaign available Library JournalHitlers Uboat War is an epic sea story about the most arduous and prolonged naval battle in history For a period of nearly six years, the German Uboat force attempted to blockade and isolate the British Isles in hopes of forcing the British out of the war, thereby thwarting both the Allied strategic air assault on German cities and Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Occupied France Fortunately for the Allies, the Uboat force failed to achieve either of these objectives, but in the attempt they sank 2,800 Allied merchant ships, while the Allies sank nearly 800 Uboats On both sides, tens of thousands of sailors perishedFor decades, an authoritative and definitive history of the Battle of the Atlantic could not be attempted, since London and Washington agreed to withhold all official codebreaking and Uboat records in order to safeguard the secrets of code breaking in the postwar years The accounts that did appear were incomplete and full of false conclusions and errors of fact, often leaving the entirely wrong impression that the German Uboats came within a whisker of defeating the Allies, a myth that is finally laid to rest in this accountClay Blair, acclaimed author of the bestselling naval classic Silent Victory: The US Submarine War Against Japan, has drawn from the official records as well as the work of German, British, American, and Canadian naval scholars Never before has Hitlers Uboat war been chronicled with such authority, fidelity, objectivity, and detail The result is this magnificent and monumental work, crammed with vivid and dramatic scenes of naval actions and dispassionate but startling new revelations, interpretations, and conclusions about all aspects of the Battle of the Atlantic