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Title
The Real Cruel Sea: The Merchant Navy in the Battle of the Atl...
Book Title
The Real Cruel Sea: The Merchant Navy in the Battle of the Atl...
ISBN
0719565995
EAN
9780719565991
Binding
Paperback
Genre
History
Height
45.97
Length
196.09
Width
128.02
Release Title
The Real Cruel Sea: The Merchant Navy in the Battle of the Atl...
Artist
Woodman, Richard
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Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Name
The Real Cruel Sea: the Merchant Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic 1939-1943
Item Height
197mm
Author
Richard Woodman
Publisher
John Murray Press
Item Width
130mm
Subject
Government, History
Item Weight
540g
Number of Pages
800 Pages

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For the British, the Battle of the Atlantic was a fight for survival, as they depended entirely upon 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. The ultimate success of these convoys is much more than the triumph of one side's naval technology over the other, or of the revelations of the enemy's encoded orders assiduously teased out by the brilliant young decrypters at Bletchley Park; it is more too than the simple assertion that victory went to the Allies because they built more ships and therefore shipped more cargoes, than the Germans could sink. A national decline had left Great Britain desperately vulnerable in 1939, when she had to mobilise her civilian ships and revive the notion of a 'merchant navy'. It was this disparate collection of private vessels which 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 first-hand sources, acclaimed historian Richard Woodman establishes the importance of the British, and Allied merchant fleets to the war effort, elevating the heroic civilians who manned them to their rightful place in the history of the Second World War.

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John Murray Press
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Richard Woodman
Publication Name
The Real Cruel Sea: the Merchant Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic 1939-1943
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Government, History
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
800 Pages

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Item Height
197mm
Item Width
130mm
Item Weight
540g

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Richard Woodman
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United Kingdom

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  • "Well researched, with the odd flash of humor"

    Through my interest in WW2 and also family connections, i learned a lot of interesting facts on the history of convoys and how they worked. A very compelling book hard to put down. Congrats to the author.

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    Fantastic well researched book of the Atlantic sea war

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