The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence: U-Boat Tracking Papers, 1941-1947

Syrett, David (Ed.)

ISBN 10: 0754631230 / ISBN 13: 9780754631231

Published by Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Aldershot, Hants, UK, 2002

About this Item

Published by Ashgate for the Navy Records Society 2002, Vol.144. vii-xiv, 464pp, hardcover, dark blue boards with title in gilt to spine. Gilt motif to front. Slight crease to top left of spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence: U-Boat Tracking Papers, 1941-1947
• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Aldershot, Hants, UK
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754631230
• ISBN 13: 9780754631231
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

This book contains the U-boats situations and trends written by the staff of the Admiralty’s Operational Intelligence Centre during the Second World War. Based largely on communications intelligence, the U-boat situations and trends were designed to inform a small number of senior officers and high officials of the latest events and developments in the Allied war against the U-boats. The Battle of the Atlantic and the war against the U-boats was the longest and the most complex naval battle in history. In this huge conflict which sprawled across the oceans of the world the U-boats sank 2,828 Allied merchant ships while the Allies destroyed more than 780 German U-boats. These documents relate on a weekly, and in some cases a daily, basis exactly what the Allies knew concerning the activities of the U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic.

About the Author

Born 8 January 1939 in White Plains, New York was the son of a well-known historian of the early American republic and editor of The Papers of Alexander Hamilton,. He graduated from Columbia University in 1961, completed his MA there in 1964 and moved to the University of London, where he completed his PhD in 1966 with a thesis on “Shipping and the American War of Independence”. He became Distinguished Professor of History at Queen’s College, City University of New York. His principal areas of interest were eighteenth-century British naval history and the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II. e died in New York on 18 October 2004, and his widow, Elena Frangakis-Syrett, has published some of his work posthumously.