| WW2 THE NAVAL WAR AGAINST HITLER by Donald Macintyre, RN |
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THE NAVAL WAR AGAINST HITLER DONALD MACINTYRE First published 1971 by |
A navy maroon covered book Gilt lettering to spine -page block top edged dyed to match boards. - VERY GOOD condition. In an unclipped and although taped/repaired top and bottom of spine area, complete dust wrapper - Very Good condition. 376 pages Weight wrapped < kilo £6.00 + Postage |
Jacket blurb
On sea power depended not only Britain's survival in the war against Hitler but the Allies' final victory. Without British control of the Channel, neither the Dunkirk evacuation nor the Normandy landings would have been accomplished. In the intervening four years, merchantmen and escorts fought a long and bitter duel in the Atlantic against the U-boats intent on cutting Britain's vital supplies of food and arms. In the Mediterranean, British maritime forces, sea and air, kept Malta alive, whence vital German supplies to Africa were harried and cut, so making possible the victory at El Alamein; the British and US Navies then carried the Allied armies to the great amphibious assaults in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. In the Arctic, the Royal Navy fought convoys through to Russia against impossible odds and the fury of the elements.
Donald Macintyre's authoritative study of the war at sea provides a clear analysis of the strategic issues on either side and of the interaction of these three main theatres of conflict. Against this strategic background, he describes all the major naval engagements of the war and vividly recreates the tense and hazardous life of those—whether British or Germans—who sailed the convoy routes. Besides these three long-drawn-out campaigns, with their outstanding moments of courage and endurance, the author highlights such dramatic episodes as the ill-fated Narvik Campaign, the Channel dash of the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the sinkings of the Bismarck and the Tirpitz.
As well as drawing on the eye-witness accounts of participants, Captain Donald Macintyre himself writes from firsthand experience as a successful escort
Commander of the Atlantic Campaign. Since the War he has established himself as one of our leading naval historians and now works in the Naval Historical Branch of the Ministry of Defence. This present volume incorporates and forms the climax of much of his earlier work on the Second World War. The author's text is supported by two dozen full-page maps and diagrams and by numerous photographs drawn from German, Italian and British sources.
The author
Captain Donald Macintyre, DSO (2 bars), DSC, had a distinguished career in the Royal Navy during which he served in destroyers and as a Fleet Air Arm pilot; during the Second World War he fought in the Atlantic campaign as an Escort Group Commander. On retirement he wrote the autobiographical U-Boat Killer and soon established himself as an outstanding naval historian. Besides such successful books as Jutland, The Thunder of the Guns, and Fighting Admiral, he has contributed separate studies of the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific campaigns to Batsford's Battles series. The first two volumes in this trilogy, together with Narvik (on the Norwegian campaign) and the Kola Run (on the Russian convoys) form the basis of much of the present work.
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