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Sto caricando le informazioni... Crisis Convoy: The Story of HX231, A Turning Point in the Battle of the Atlantic (Submarine Warfare in World War Two) Book 1 (Submarine Warfare in World War Two)di Peter Gretton
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Excellent book. It combined two great view points. The book is written by the leader of the naval force that escorted the convoy The author is writing from 30 year perspective utilising the archives of both the British and the germans. He writes very conscise and in an interesting way. ( ) The Atlantic convoy HX-231 consisted of 61 merchant ships & 6 escorts. This first-hand account by the Commander of the escort ships, describes and analyses the battle between a German 'wolf-pack' of 20 U-boats and the convoys' escorts, a battle in which the U-boat successes were unexpectedly small. Gretton reveals how the convoy was handled, how the technical devices were used, and how the surface escorts, and later in the passage, the Coastal Command aircraft operated B-24s. This book, for the first time since all the official British and German records became available, describes and analyses a vital 1943 Atlantic convoy battle, between six escort ships (of which the author was Commander) and the German wolf pack of twenty U-boats. SEE ALSO: Captain Gilbert Roberts, R.N. and the Anti U-boat School by Williams, Mark The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
In April 1943, Commander Peter Gretton was in charge of escorting a vital Allied trade convoy from New York to Great Britain across the North Atlantic. Over the course of the voyage, the sixty-one merchant ships of convoy HX231, along with the six ships of B7 Escort Group, were continuously shadowed and attacked by a German wolf pack of twenty U-boats. With the aid of air support, the convoy and defending escort fought valiantly across hundreds of miles of ocean and, despite poor weather conditions, managed to sink and severely damage several enemy submarines. Tragically six merchant ships were torpedoed and with no rescue vessel any survivors were left stranded in the freezing waters of the Atlantic as the convoy continued on its journey. Drawing on reports from both sides, Gretton details the sequence of events as convoy HX231 battled its way through a large wolf pack and offers an authoritative post-battle analysis of the strategies, decisions, and actions taken that would ultimately see the tide of war turn in favor of victory for the Allies. Crisis Convoy takes the listener to the heart of the action and is a thrilling account of naval warfare during World War II. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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