War Beneath the Sea by Peter Padfield

War Beneath the Sea by Peter Padfield

This volume covers major submarine campaigns during World War II, describing operations of the British, American, Japanese and Italian submarine and anti-submarine forces. Experiences of submarine and anti-submarine warfare are featured, from the decision makers in the war offices to men in the boats. The narrow margin by which Britain escaped defeat by German U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic is examined, along with the performance of the Japanese giant submarines in the Pacific, and the triumph of the American submarines in the Pacific. Other topics include: the capture of the Enigma cipher machines; accounts of the shooting of defenceless warriors in the water; and how the huge shipping losses on the US East Coast in early 1942 were more disastrous than the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Peter Padfield is a leading naval historian and biographer. He trained for the sea as a cadet in H.M.S.Worcester, subsequently serving in the P & O Line. In 1957 he sailed under Cdr. Alan Villiers in the replica pilgrim bark, Mayflower II, from Plymouth, England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where Mayflower is now preserved. Working his passage to the south Pacific he sailed among the Solomon Islands before leaving the sea and settling with his wife in Suffolk, England. His first major book, The Titanic and the Californian defended the captain of the Californian from the charge of not going to Titanic's rescue. He subsequently turned to naval subjects, particularly great gunnery, strategy and tactics. His biography of the U-boat admiral, Karl Donitz, led him to a portrayal of submarine warfare in War Beneath the Sea, and to biographies of other leading Nazis, Heinrich Himmler and Rudolf Hess, subsequently translated into many European languages. Latterly he has returned to naval history, attempting to bring it out of the specialist closet and present it as a major determinant of the modern world in a trilogy whose second volume, Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom, won the Mountbatten Maritime Prize, 2003.

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ISBN 13	9780471249450
ISBN 10	0471249459
Title	War Beneath the Sea
Author	Peter Padfield
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Turner Publishing Company
Year published	1998-05-14
Number of pages	576
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