The Wolf Packs Gather: Mayhem in the Western Approaches 1940 [Audiobook] download free by Bernard Edwards
- Listen audiobook: The Wolf Packs Gather: Mayhem in the Western Approaches 1940
- Author: Bernard Edwards
- Release date: 2012/7/21
- Publisher: PEN & SWORD BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9781848846241
- Rating: 9.38 of 10
- Votes: 540
- Review by: Alice Hedrick
- Review rating: 9.91 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/27
- Duration: 2H21M7S in 256 kbps (38.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-17
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: Shorten, FLAC, MPEG4, WAV, MP3, WMA (compression RAR, ZIP, Z, TBZ, TZO)
- Total pages original book: 192
- Includes a PDF summary of 16 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 12M24S (3.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: As a direct result of the capture of the British steamer City of Baghdad's secret code books by the German surface raider Atlantis in July 1940, the Nazis were able to de-cypher Admiralty convoy plans with deadly effect. Admiral Doenitz, aware of the movements of the Allied convoys, marshalled as many of his U-boats as possible.This book describes the resulting appalling Allied losses suffered by four convoys during the Autumn of 1940. The first convoy, SC2, consisting of fifty-three merchantmen, was attacked in early September by four U-boats. Due to poor weather only five ships were lost. Shortly afterwards, HX72, sailing from Nova Scotia, lost eleven of its forty-one ships to five Type VIIC U-boats. Top Aces Otto Kretschremer and Joachim Schepke, who penetrated inside the columns, accounted for nine.No less than nine U-boats attacked SC7 in October 1940. Of thirty-five merchantmen a staggering twenty were lost. Despite being a 'fast' convoy with ten escorts, HX79 also fared terribly losing twelve ships. In total forty-eight merchantmen were sunk and seven more damaged without any U-boat losses at all.A superbly researched and authoritative account of the darkest hours of the Battle of the Atlantic, The Wolf Packs Gather is a tragic account of unprecedented losses of seamen, ships and cargo from these merciless attacks on the four convoys.The Author, a much published and distinguished historian and Merchant Navy captain, is well qualified to describe not only the German tactics but the inadequacies of the Allied counter-measures.
- Other categories, genre or collection: 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, Naval Forces & Warfare, War & Defence Operations, Military History, Ships & Shipping, European History, World War 2 Books
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 26.13 USD
- Dimensions: 156x234x25.4mm
- Weight: 476.27g
- Printed by: Pen & Sword Maritime
- Published in: South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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