1941 The Second World War at Sea in Photographs
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History
Military History
Military History of Naval Forces
Military History of Strategy
Military History of World War II
Social Sciences
War & Defence Operations
Warfare & Defence
World War Two
WWII
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- ISBN 9781445622453
- Weight: 327g
- Dimensions: 165 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2014
- Publisher: Amberley Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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At the beginning of 1941, Britain stood alone against Germany and Italy. The Battle of the Atlantic was in full swing. Hitler’s U-boats were operating in packs, descending on convoys and sinking many millions of tons of shipping. In May, the formidable German battleship Bismarck left port, heading out into the North Atlantic. After sinking the battlecruiser HMS Hood off Iceland, she was eventually cornered by the Royal Navy in the Bay of Biscay and sunk herself. A major breakthrough came when a naval Enigma code machine was captured from the U-boat U-110. With the attack by Hitler on Russia in June, convoys began to be sent up the coast of Norway to the northern ports of Murmansk and Archangel, carrying war material to support the struggling Soviets. December 1941 saw the war become a truly global conflict, with the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Indonesia bringing the United States into the war.
Using many rarely seen images, Phil Carradice tells the story of 1941: The War at Sea.
Phil Carradice is a full time writer and broadcaster. He is a graduate of Cardiff University and UWIC in Cardiff and taught for thirty years, becoming Head of a large residential Special School. He has had numerous books published including novels, history, biography and poetry. He is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 3 & 4 and on TV programmes such as The One Show. He presents The Past Master on BBC Radio Wales. He lives in the Vale of Glamorgan.
