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Angus Konstam Big Guns in the Atlantic (Paperback) Raid
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- Book Title
- Big Guns in the Atlantic : Germany's Battleships and Cruisers Raid the Convoys, 1939-41
- Publication Name
- Big Guns in the Atlantic
- Title
- Big Guns in the Atlantic
- Subtitle
- Germany’s battleships and cruisers raid the convoys, 1939–41
- Illustrator
- Edouard A. Groult
- Contributor
- Edouard A. Groult (Illustrated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 147284596X
- EAN
- 9781472845962
- ISBN
- 9781472845962
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Military / World War II, World
- Release Date
- 19/08/2021
- Release Year
- 2021
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.2in
- Item Length
- 8.9in
- Item Weight
- 9.2 Oz
- Series
- Raid
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Item Width
- 7.3in
- Number of Pages
- 80 Pages
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In the early months and years of World War II, it was Germany's cruisers and battleships that most ravaged the Atlantic Convoys. This is the history of those raids, and how the success of 1941's Operation Berlin led directly to the Kriegsmarine sending into the Atlantic its greatest battleship - the mighty, ill-fated Bismarck. At the outbreak of World War II the German Kriegsmarine still had a relatively small U-boat arm. To reach Britain's convoy routes in the North Atlantic, these boats had to pass around the top of the British Isles - a long and dangerous voyage to their "hunting grounds". Germany's larger surface warships were much better suited to this kind of long-range operation. So, during late 1939 the armored cruiser Deutschland , and later the battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were used as commerce raiders, to strike at Allied convoys in the North Atlantic. These sorties met with mixed results, but for Germany's naval high command they showed that this kind of operation had potential. Then, the fall of France, Denmark and Norway in early 1940 dramatically altered the strategic situation. The Atlantic was now far easier to reach, and to escape from. During 1940, further moderately successful sorties were made by the cruisers Admiral Scheer and Admiral Hipper . By the end of the year, with British mercantile losses mounting to surface raiders and U-Boats, plans were developed for a much larger raid, first using both cruisers, and then the two battlecruisers. The climax of this was Operation Berlin , the Kriegsmarine's largest and most wide-ranging North Atlantic sortie so far. Scharnhorst and Gneisenau remained at sea for two months, destroying 22 Allied merchant ships, and severely disrupting Britain's lifeline convoys. So, when the operation ended, the German commander, Admiral Lütjens was ordered to repeat his success - this time with the brand new battleship Bismarck . The rest, as they say, is history. These earlier Atlantic raids demonstrated that German surface ships could be highly effective commerce raiders. For those willing to see though, they also demonstrated just how risky this strategy could be. Covering a fascinating and detailed analysis of the Kriegsmarine's Atlantic raids between 1939 and 1941, this book will appeal to readers interested in World War II and in particular in Germany's naval operations.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10
147284596x
ISBN-13
9781472845962
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20050384451
Product Key Features
Book Title
Big Guns in the Atlantic : Germany's Battleships and Cruisers Raid the Convoys, 1939-41
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, World
Publication Year
2021
Genre
History
Number of Pages
80 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
0.2in
Item Width
7.3in
Item Weight
9.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
55
Lc Classification Number
D771
Reviews
"The artwork in this book is extremely good and the narrative details the Kriegsmarine's early Atlantic raids which led directly to the ill-fated Bismarck's only voyage, that in turn led to Hitler's loss of confidence in his surface Navy." - SIMON HAILL, The Naval Review, The artwork in this book is extremely good and the narrative details the Kriegsmarine's early Atlantic raids which led directly to the ill-fated Bismarck's only voyage, that in turn led to Hitler's loss of confidence in his surface Navy.
Table of Content
introduction Initial StrategyPlanning For WarThe Atlantic SortiesAftermathAnalysisConclusionFurther ReadingIndex
Illustrated by
Groult, Edouard A.
Dewey Decimal
940.545943
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Raid Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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