Adrian Stewart

The War With Hitler's Navy (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As this well researched work reveals, Hitlers handling the German Navy during the Second World War was full of contradictions.The seriousness of the U-boat threat was never in doubt and in the dark days of 1940 1942, the Donitzs daring strategy coupled with the courage and determined actions of the captains and crews became perilously close to starving Britain into submission.But, despite having built and nurtured a surface fleet with capital ships of formidable power, Hitler was uncharacteristically cautious of employing them aggressively. Examination of the reasons for this make for fascinating reading, possibly stemming from the early loss of the Graf Spee and the fact that, whenever possible, the Royal Navy threw all its weight regardless of cost at the Nazi threat; the loss of the Hood in the pursuit of the Bismarck being one example. Even Goebbels could not spin the loss of a battleship.The War against Hitlers Navy describes in fascinating detail the many fronts on which the adversaries faced each other and analyzes the reasons for the ultimate outcome.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen & Sword Maritime
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526710598
• Artikelnr.: 55264093

Autorenporträt

Adrian Stewart was educated at Rugby School before taking First Class Honours at Caius College, Cambridge. His previously published works with Pen & Sword Books include: Eighth Army's Greatest Victories, Early Battles of Eighth Army, They Flew Hurricanes, The Campaigns of Alexander of Tunis, 1940-1945, February 1942 - Britain's Darkest Days, Carriers at War, Six of Monty's Men, and Ten Squadrons of Hurricanes. He lives near Rugby.