Description
| Product ID: | 9781445622453 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | The Second World War at Sea in Photographs |
| Title: | 1941 The Second World War at Sea in Photographs |
| Authors: | Author: Phil Carradice |
| Page Count: | 128 |
| Subjects: | Photographs: collections, Photographs: collections, Second World War, Naval forces and warfare, War and defence operations, Second World War, Naval forces & warfare, War & defence operations, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In 1941, Britain stood alone. North Africa dominated the news. Bismarck sank Hood. Fortress Britain endured the Blitz. Russia was invaded. Japan woke the USA with its attack on Pearl Harbor. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Amberley Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | Amberley Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-11-15 |
