Decision in the Atlantic: The Allies and the Longest Campaign of the Second World War

The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest campaign of the Second World War. This volume highlights the scale and complexity of this bitterly contested campaign, one that encompassed far more than just attacks by German U-boats on Allied shipping.

The team of leading scholars assembled in this study situates the German assault on seaborne trade within the wider Allied war effort and provides a new understanding of its place within the Second World War. Individual chapters offer original perspectives on a range of neglected or previously overlooked subjects: how Allied grand strategy shaped the war at sea; the choices facing Churchill and other Allied leaders and the tensions over the allocation of scarce resources between theaters; how the battle spread beyond the Atlantic Ocean in both military and economic terms; the management of Britain's merchant shipping repair yards; the defense of British coastal waters against German surface raiders; the contribution of air power to trade defense; antisubmarine escort training; the role of special intelligence; and the war against the U-boats in the Arctic and Pacific Oceans.

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Decision in the Atlantic: The Allies and the Longest Campaign of the Second World War

The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest campaign of the Second World War. This volume highlights the scale and complexity of this bitterly contested campaign, one that encompassed far more than just attacks by German U-boats on Allied shipping.

The team of leading scholars assembled in this study situates the German assault on seaborne trade within the wider Allied war effort and provides a new understanding of its place within the Second World War. Individual chapters offer original perspectives on a range of neglected or previously overlooked subjects: how Allied grand strategy shaped the war at sea; the choices facing Churchill and other Allied leaders and the tensions over the allocation of scarce resources between theaters; how the battle spread beyond the Atlantic Ocean in both military and economic terms; the management of Britain's merchant shipping repair yards; the defense of British coastal waters against German surface raiders; the contribution of air power to trade defense; antisubmarine escort training; the role of special intelligence; and the war against the U-boats in the Arctic and Pacific Oceans.

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Decision in the Atlantic: The Allies and the Longest Campaign of the Second World War

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The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest campaign of the Second World War. This volume highlights the scale and complexity of this bitterly contested campaign, one that encompassed far more than just attacks by German U-boats on Allied shipping.

The team of leading scholars assembled in this study situates the German assault on seaborne trade within the wider Allied war effort and provides a new understanding of its place within the Second World War. Individual chapters offer original perspectives on a range of neglected or previously overlooked subjects: how Allied grand strategy shaped the war at sea; the choices facing Churchill and other Allied leaders and the tensions over the allocation of scarce resources between theaters; how the battle spread beyond the Atlantic Ocean in both military and economic terms; the management of Britain's merchant shipping repair yards; the defense of British coastal waters against German surface raiders; the contribution of air power to trade defense; antisubmarine escort training; the role of special intelligence; and the war against the U-boats in the Arctic and Pacific Oceans.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781949668032
Publisher: Andarta Books
Publication date: 05/17/2019
Series: New Perspectives on the Second World War
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 322
File size: 3 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Marcus Faulkner is a senior teaching fellow in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. He is the author of The Great War at Sea: A Naval Atlas, 1914–1919 and War at Sea: A Naval Atlas, 1939–1945, and coeditor of Northern European Overture to War, 1939–1941: From Memel to Barbarossa. Christopher M. Bell is professor of history at Dalhousie University, and has published numerous scholarly articles on naval history and British strategic foreign policy. He is the author of Churchill and the Dardanelles; Churchill and Sea Power; The Royal Navy, Seapower and Strategy between the Wars, and coeditor of At the Crossroads between Peace and War: The London Conference of 1930 and Naval Mutinies of the Twentieth Century: An International Perspective.


Marcus Faulkner is a senior teaching fellow in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. He is the author of The Great War at Sea: A Naval Atlas, 1914–1919 and War at Sea: A Naval Atlas, 1939–1945, and coeditor of Northern European Overture to War, 1939–1941: From Memel to Barbarossa.
Christopher M. Bell is professor of history at Dalhousie University, and has published numerous scholarly articles on naval history and British strategic foreign policy. He is the author of Churchill and the Dardanelles; Churchill and Sea Power; The Royal Navy, Seapower and Strategy between the Wars, and coeditor of At the Crossroads between Peace and War: The London Conference of 1930 and Naval Mutinies of the Twentieth Century: An International Perspective.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 The Atlantic War, 1939-1945: The Case for a New Paradigm Marc Milner 5

2 The View from the Top: Winston Churchill, British Grand Strategy, and the Battle of the Atlantic Christopher M. Bell 20

3 "Immobilized by Reason of Repair" and by the Choice "Between Lithgow and Hitler": Class Conflict in Britain's Wartime Merchant Shipping Repair Yards Kevin Smith 46

4 Brothers in Arms: The Admiralty, the Air Ministry, and the Battle of the Atlantic Tim Benbow 78

5 The Fleet Air Arm and Trade Defense, 1939-1944 Ben Jones 125

6 All Should be "A" Teams: The Development of Group Anti-Submarine Escort Training in the British and Canadian Navies during the Atlantic Campaign James Goldrick 150

7 "A Most Disagreeable Problem": British Perceptions of the Kriegsmarine's Aircraft Carrier Capability Marcus Faulkner 169

8 Meat Exports and the Limits of Wartime Multilateralism: Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard's Response to America's Changing Global Role Kevin Smith 195

9 The Other Critical Convoy Battles of 1943: The Eclipse of the Schnellboote in the English Channel and the North Sea G. H. Bennett 225

10 The Cruise of U-188: Special Intelligence and the "Liquidation" of Group Monsoon, 1943-1944 David Kohnen 252

List of Contributors 289

Index 293

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