The Royal Navy and Anti-Submarine Warfare, 1917-49 Contributor(s): Llewellyn-Jones, Malcolm (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138010421 ISBN-13: 9781138010420 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $59.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Military - Naval - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Political Science | Political Freedom |
Dewey: 940.545 |
Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History |
Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.76 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1940's |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: An essential new account of how anti-submarine warfare is conducted, with a focus on both historic and present-day operations. This new book shows how until 1944 U-boats operated as submersible torpedo craft which relied heavily on the surface for movement and charging their batteries. This pattern was repeated in WWII until Allied anti-submarine countermeasures had forced the Germans to modify their existing U-boats with the schnorkel. Countermeasures along also pushed the development of high-speed U-boats capable of continuously submerged operations. This study shows how these improved submarines became benchmark of the post-war Russian submarine challenge. Royal Navy doctrine was developed by professional anti-submarine officers, and based on the well-tried combination of defensive and offensive anti-submarine measures that had stood the press of time since 1917, notwithstanding considerable technological change. This consistent and holistic view of anti-submarine warfare has not been understood by most of the subsequent historians of these anti-submarine campaigns, and this book provides an essential and new insight into how Cold War, and indeed modern, anti-submarine warfare is conducted. |