Research Catalog

Title

Decision in the Atlantic : the Allies and the longest campaign of the Second World War / edited by Marcus Faulkner and Christopher M. Bell.

Publication

Lexington, Kentucky : Andarta Books, an imprint of The University Press of Kentucky, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Faulkner, Marcus
• Bell, Christopher M.

Description

313 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"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."--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

New perspectives on the Second World War

Uniform Title

New perspectives on the Second World War.

Alternative Title

Allies and the longest campaign of the Second World War

Subject

• World War (1939-1945)
• 1939-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Atlantic Ocean
• World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations, British
• World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations, American
• Military campaigns
• Military operations, Naval > American
• Atlantic Ocean

Note

• Copyright held by Brécourt Academic.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The Atlantic war, 1939-1945: the case for a new paradigm / Marc Milner -- The view from the top: Winston Churchill, British grand strategy, and the Battle of the Atlantic / Christopher M. Bell -- "Immobilized by reason of repair" and by the choice "between Lithgow and Hitler" : class conflict in Britain's wartime merchant shipping repair yards / Kevin Smith -- Brothers in arms : the Admiralty, the Air Ministry, and the Battle of the Atlantic / Tim Benbow -- The Fleet Air Arm and trade defense, 1939-1944 / Ben Jones -- All should be "A" teams: the development of group anti-submarine escort training in the British and Canadian navies during the Atlantic campaign / James Goldrick -- "A most disagreeable problem" : British perceptions of the Kriegsmarine's aircraft carrier capability / Marcus Faulkner -- Meat exports and the limits of wartime multilateralism : Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard's response to America's changing global role / Kevin Smith -- The other critical convoy battles of 1943 : the eclipse of the Schnellboote in the English Channel and the North Sea / G. H. Bennett -- The cruise of U-188 : Special Intelligence and the "liquidation" of Group Monsoon, 1943-1944 / David Kohnen.

Call Number

JFE 19-7868

ISBN

• 9781949668001
• 1949668002

LCCN

2019007774

OCLC

1088649028

Title

Decision in the Atlantic : the Allies and the longest campaign of the Second World War / edited by Marcus Faulkner and Christopher M. Bell.

Publisher

Lexington, Kentucky : Andarta Books, an imprint of The University Press of Kentucky, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New perspectives on the Second World War

New perspectives on the Second World War.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1939-1945

Added Author

Faulkner, Marcus, editor.

Bell, Christopher M., editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-7868