Imprint:
United Kingdom : B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1971
Notes:
On sea power depended not only Britain's survival in the war against Hitler but the Allies' final victory. Without British control of the Channel, neither the Dunkirk evacuation nor the Normandy landings would have been accomplished. In the intervening four years, merchantmen and escorts fought a long and bitter duel in the Atlantic against the U-boats intent on cutting Britain's vital supplies of food and arms. In the Mediterranean, British maritime forces, sea and air, kept Malta alive, whence vital German supplies to Africa were harried and cut, so making possible the victory at El Alamein; the British and US Navies then carried the Allied armies to the great amphibious assaults in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. In the Arctic, the Royal Navy fought convoys through to Russia against impossible odds and the fury of he elements.
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