Operation Drumbeat: The Dramatic True Story of Germany's by Michael Gannon

By Michael Gannon

Within the first 8 months of 1942, German submarines sank approximately four hundred Allied freighters and tankers alongside the U.S. Atlantic coast with a lack of greater than 5,000 service provider seamen and sailors two times the variety of fatalities at Pearl Harbor. This e-book is helping readers comprehend the complexities of the lengthy conflict of the Atlantic via reading these disastrous early days of conflict and following the U-boats into motion. The publication strains the voyages of 5 U-boats to their locations as they sink twenty-five ships unmolested by means of the U.S. military, which didn't stick to via on British intelligence warnings. It additionally presents a compilation of private tales from crewmen and officials of U-123 and from the Allied sailors and service provider seamen solid adrift in lifeboats via the U-boat s torpedoes. A bestseller whilst first released in 1990, it truly is now again in print as a alternate paperback.

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