The U-Boat Hunters: The Royal Canadian Navy and the Offensive against Germany's Submarines
The Royal Canadian Navy is best known for its role in the defence of convoys against attacks by U-boats, particularly those in the mid-Atlantic from 1941--1943. Marc Milner's 1985 book, North Atlantic Run: The Royal Canadian Navy and the Battle for the Convoys, was the first scholarly analysis...
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| Zusammenfassung: | The Royal Canadian Navy is best known for its role in the defence of convoys against attacks by U-boats, particularly those in the mid-Atlantic from 1941--1943. Marc Milner's 1985 book, North Atlantic Run: The Royal Canadian Navy and the Battle for the Convoys, was the first scholarly analysis of those crucial defensive operations. The U-Boat Hunters takes up the story for the last two years of the war, when the measurement of operational effectiveness at sea shifted from success in defending convoys to the ability to hunt down and sink U-Boats. The U-Boat Hunters begins with a thorough re-evaluation of the RCN's role in the decisive Allied Atlantic victory over the U-boats in 1943. It presents some startling new conclusions about why the Canadians were marginalized in this the greatest of all anti-submarine offensives. Most studies of the Atlantic war end at this point, but 1943 is just the prologue to Milner's new book. Historians have ignored anti-submarine warfare in 1944-5 because it was highly technical, undramatic end of no consequence to the outcome of the war itself. But the war against the U-boat was unrelenting. Schnorkels, improved batteries, radar detectors, and complex inshore water conditions made it difficult to find and sink late-war U-boats. By 1944 the Germans were building new, high-speed true submarines, against which the Allies had no effective countermeasures. This book is the story of how it fought to master the basics of modern anti-submarine warfare, and how its efforts fit into the larger Allied campaign. The U-Boat Hunters, which completes Milner's analysis of the RCN's battle with Germany's submarines, is a pioneering study of the final years of the Atlantic war and a landmark work in both Canadian and modern naval history |
| Beschreibung: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019) |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (382 pages) |
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| spelling | Milner, Marc aut The U-Boat Hunters The Royal Canadian Navy and the Offensive against Germany's Submarines Marc Milner Toronto University of Toronto Press [2019] © 1994 1 online resource (382 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Heritage Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019) The Royal Canadian Navy is best known for its role in the defence of convoys against attacks by U-boats, particularly those in the mid-Atlantic from 1941--1943. Marc Milner's 1985 book, North Atlantic Run: The Royal Canadian Navy and the Battle for the Convoys, was the first scholarly analysis of those crucial defensive operations. The U-Boat Hunters takes up the story for the last two years of the war, when the measurement of operational effectiveness at sea shifted from success in defending convoys to the ability to hunt down and sink U-Boats. The U-Boat Hunters begins with a thorough re-evaluation of the RCN's role in the decisive Allied Atlantic victory over the U-boats in 1943. It presents some startling new conclusions about why the Canadians were marginalized in this the greatest of all anti-submarine offensives. Most studies of the Atlantic war end at this point, but 1943 is just the prologue to Milner's new book. Historians have ignored anti-submarine warfare in 1944-5 because it was highly technical, undramatic end of no consequence to the outcome of the war itself. But the war against the U-boat was unrelenting. Schnorkels, improved batteries, radar detectors, and complex inshore water conditions made it difficult to find and sink late-war U-boats. By 1944 the Germans were building new, high-speed true submarines, against which the Allies had no effective countermeasures. This book is the story of how it fought to master the basics of modern anti-submarine warfare, and how its efforts fit into the larger Allied campaign. The U-Boat Hunters, which completes Milner's analysis of the RCN's battle with Germany's submarines, is a pioneering study of the final years of the Atlantic war and a landmark work in both Canadian and modern naval history In English Geschichte 1943-1945 gnd rswk-swf HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-) bisacsh Naval convoys Canada History 20th century World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Atlantic Ocean World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations Submarine World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, Canadian Unterseebootjäger (DE-588)4302939-5 gnd rswk-swf Marine (DE-588)4074570-3 gnd rswk-swf U-Jagd (DE-588)4384572-1 gnd rswk-swf Deutschland (DE-588)4011882-4 gnd rswk-swf Kanada (DE-588)4029456-0 gnd rswk-swf Kanada (DE-588)4029456-0 g U-Jagd (DE-588)4384572-1 s Deutschland (DE-588)4011882-4 g Geschichte 1943-1945 z 1\p DE-604 Marine (DE-588)4074570-3 s Unterseebootjäger (DE-588)4302939-5 s 2\p DE-604 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487576394 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
| spellingShingle | Milner, Marc The U-Boat Hunters The Royal Canadian Navy and the Offensive against Germany's Submarines HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-) bisacsh Naval convoys Canada History 20th century World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Atlantic Ocean World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations Submarine World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, Canadian Unterseebootjäger (DE-588)4302939-5 gnd Marine (DE-588)4074570-3 gnd U-Jagd (DE-588)4384572-1 gnd |
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| title | The U-Boat Hunters The Royal Canadian Navy and the Offensive against Germany's Submarines |
| title_auth | The U-Boat Hunters The Royal Canadian Navy and the Offensive against Germany's Submarines |
| title_exact_search | The U-Boat Hunters The Royal Canadian Navy and the Offensive against Germany's Submarines |
| title_full | The U-Boat Hunters The Royal Canadian Navy and the Offensive against Germany's Submarines Marc Milner |
| title_fullStr | The U-Boat Hunters The Royal Canadian Navy and the Offensive against Germany's Submarines Marc Milner |
| title_full_unstemmed | The U-Boat Hunters The Royal Canadian Navy and the Offensive against Germany's Submarines Marc Milner |
| title_short | The U-Boat Hunters |
| title_sort | the u boat hunters the royal canadian navy and the offensive against germany s submarines |
| title_sub | The Royal Canadian Navy and the Offensive against Germany's Submarines |
| topic | HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-) bisacsh Naval convoys Canada History 20th century World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Atlantic Ocean World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations Submarine World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, Canadian Unterseebootjäger (DE-588)4302939-5 gnd Marine (DE-588)4074570-3 gnd U-Jagd (DE-588)4384572-1 gnd |
| topic_facet | HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-) Naval convoys Canada History 20th century World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Atlantic Ocean World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations Submarine World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, Canadian Unterseebootjäger Marine U-Jagd Deutschland Kanada |
| url | https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487576394 |
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