The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest campaign of the Second World War. This volume highlights the scale and complexity of this bitterly contested campaign, one that encompassed far more than just attacks by German U-boats on Allied shipping.
The team of leading scholars assembled in this study situates the German assault on seaborne trade within the wider Allied war effort and provides a new understanding of its place within the Second World War. Individual chapters offer original perspectives on a range of neglected or previously overlooked subjects: how Allied grand strategy shaped the war at sea; the choices facing Churchill and other Allied leaders and the tensions over the allocation of scarce resources between theaters; how the battle spread beyond the Atlantic Ocean in both military and economic terms; the management of Britain’s merchant shipping repair yards; the defense of British coastal waters against German surface raiders; the contribution of air power to trade defense; antisubmarine escort training; the role of special intelligence; and the war against the U-boats in the Arctic and Pacific Oceans.
Table of Content
The Atlantic War, 1939-1945: The Case for a New Paradigm
The View from the Top: Winston Churchill, British Grand Strategy, and the Battle of the Atlantic
‘Immobilized by Reason of Repair’ and by the Choice ‘Between Lithgow and Hitler’: Class Conflict in Britain’s Wartime Merchant Shipping Repair Yards
Brothers in Arms: The Admiralty, the Air Ministry, and the Battle of the Atlantic
The Fleet Air Arm and Trade Defense, 1939-1944
All should be ‘A’ Teams: The Development of Group Anti-Submarine Escort Training in the British and Candian Navies during the Atlantic Campaign
‘A Most Disagreeable Problem’: British Perceptions of the Kriegsmarine’s Aircraft Carrier Capability
Meat Exports and the Limits of Wartime Multilateralism: Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard’s Response to America’s Changing Global Role
The Other Critical Convoy Battles of 1943: The Eclipse of the Schnellboote in the English Channel and the North Sea
The Cruise of U-188: Special Intelligence and the ‘Liquidation’ of Group Monsoon, 1943-1944
About the author
Christopher M. Bell is professor of history at Dalhousie University, and has published numerous scholarly articles on naval history and British strategic foreign policy. He is the author of Churchill and the Dardanelles; Churchill and Sea Power; The Royal Navy, Seapower and Strategy between the Wars, and coeditor of At the Crossroads between Peace and War: The London Conference of 1930 and Naval Mutinies of the Twentieth Century: An International Perspective.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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