Research Catalog

Title

Atlantic escorts : ships, weapons & tactics in World War II / David K. Brown.

Author

Brown, D. K. (David K.)

Publication

• Yorkshire : Seaforth Publishing, 2022.
• ©2007

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Description

176 pages : illustrations, maps; 29 cm

Summary

"Winston Churchill famously claimed that the submarine war in the Atlantic was the only campaign of the World War II that really frightened him. If the lifeline to North America had been cut, Britain would never have survived; there could have been no build-up of U.S. and Commonwealth forces, no D-Day landings, and no victory in western Europe. Furthermore, the battle raged from the first day of the war until the final German surrender, making it the longest and arguably hardest-fought campaign of the whole war. The ships, technology, and tactics employed by the Allies form the subject of this book. Beginning with the lessons apparently learned from the World War I, the author outlines inter-war developments in technology and training and describes the later preparations for the second global conflict. When the war came the balance of advantage was to see-saw between U-boats and escorts, with new weapons and sensors introduced at a rapid rate. For the defending navies, the prime requirement was numbers, and the most pressing problem was to improve capability without sacrificing simplicity and speed of construction. The author analyzes the resulting designs of sloops, frigates, corvettes and destroyer escorts and attempts to determine their relative effectiveness. While the basic characteristics of these ships are well known, this was the first book to look at their cost-effectiveness in terms of anti-submarine warfare. Based on a lifetime's experience of designing warships, the author's fascinating insights, presented in this new paperback edition, will be of interest to enthusiasts and valuable to naval historians alike."--Amazon.com.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Warships > History > 20th century
• Anti-submarine warfare > History
• Destroyer escorts > History
• World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Atlantic Ocean
• World War, 1939-1945 > Atlantic Ocean > Naval operations
• Anti-submarine warfare
• Destroyer escorts
• Military campaigns
• Military operations, Naval
• Warships
• Atlantic Ocean

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "This paperback edition first published in Great Britain in 2022."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-170) and index.

Contents

Between the wars -- War, the First Phase: September 1939 -- April 1940 -- After the Fall of France: June 1940 -- March 1941 -- A Gleam of Light: April -- December 1941 -- The Second Happy Time: January -- June 1942 -- The Pendulum Swings: August 1942 -- May 1943 -- Pause, Counterattack and Victory: June 1943 -- May 1945 -- Some Technical Aspects of the Battle -- Production: Building the Ships to Win the Battle -- Evaluation: How Good Were They? -- The Fast Submarine -- Diving Depth and Pressure Hull Strength -- Fitting of 6pdr Guns -- Loss of Destroyers in Bad Weather -- Asdic Sets.

ISBN

• 9781399029902
• 1399029908

OCLC

• 1313607066
• on1313607066
• SCSB-14283221

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library