Battle of the Atlantic
Briefing
The longest campaign of the war ran from its first day to its last, as German U-boats tried to sever the convoy lifeline between North America and Britain. More than 30,000 Allied merchant seamen died, along with roughly three of every four German submariners who put to sea. Victory in mid-1943 — won by codebreaking, escort carriers, and long-range aircraft — made everything that followed possible.
Books Covering This Event (9)
Historical Fiction
The war of the Atlantic escorts told through one corvette and her crew, by an officer who lived it.
One Arctic convoy escort driven past breaking point on the Murmansk run.
Forty-eight sleepless hours in the head of a destroyer captain shepherding a convoy through the wolfpacks.
A novel of one U-boat patrol in 1941, written by a war correspondent who sailed on the real thing.
Three women of Bletchley Park, a broken friendship, and a traitor hunt on the eve of a royal wedding.
