Squadron-Signal - Warships In Action 4001 - U-Boots in Action
The story of the U-boat campaign in World War II is a drama of rise and fall, and almost rise again. The German U-boat arm rose from the ashes to become the Third Reich's most effective weapon against the West. For a few brief months the U-boats seemed to be winning the Battle of the Atlantic, bringing England slowly but surely to her knees, until May 1943 brought a sudden reversal of fortune and the anguish of a losing struggle fought with diminishing resources against a materially superior enemy. The Versailles Treaty, in an effort to render Germany incapable of waging another World War, prohibited her from possessing submarines, which had so nearly defeated England in WW I. Yet it took less than three years for the Reichsmarine to secretly circumvent this restriction. In July 1922, the "Ingenieurs-Kantoor voor Scheepsbouw", a Dutch ship design and construction firm, was acquired to act as a cover for the clandestine Submarine Development Bureau. The acquisition was made using so called "Black Funds", (monies deliberately over-appropriated by the German Armed Forces for secret use, ie: the same source that financed the Reich-swehr's secret armor development in Russia). Among other, more innocent projects, the Dutch-based firm oversaw the design and construction of the boats that were to be prototypes for the U-boat classes that Germany took to war
Название: U-Boats in action (Warships 4001)
авторы: Robert C. Stern, Don Greer
Publisher: Squadron/Signal Publications
Год издания: 1977
ISBN: 0897470540
Страниц: 51 Pages
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Размер: 35 MB
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