Buy this book on-line WILSON**, MICHAEL: : A SUBMARINER'S WAR: THE INDIAN OCEAN 1939-45UK.STROUD,GLOUCESTERSHIRE.TEMPUS PUBLISHING LTD.,2000. ISBN 0752420135.
UK,8vo wraps,p/back original.1st edn. [Internal ISBN varies from that of the external printed one.Internally ISBN 0752420135.] FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price removal to cover.Bright, crisp,clean and sharp-cornered,matt photographic illustrated front cover with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - and no reading creases to spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, would appear unread - apart from my own collation.UK,8vo wraps,p/back original,1st edn, 9-192pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,an introduction, 11 chapters includes an epilogue, profuse b/w contemporary photographs,appendices (I-III),a bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication with 2 contemporary b/w photographs to it's reverse as a frontis, and a contents list/table.
The story of the Battle of the Atlantic is well known.It was fought over many thousands of square miles of ocean and lasted until the German surrender in May 1945.The inability of the Germans to win the Battle of the Atlantic greatly reduced their hopes of winning the war.
Strangely there was no Battle of the Pacific as such.The battle of attrition between the American and Japanese fleets never took place and thousands of American ships crossed the Pacific,in support of their army's island-hopping campaign,almost unscathed by attack from Japanese submarines.
The Indian Ocean provided an altogether different scenario as it was the one area of the world where,uniquely,the submarines of seven nations - Great Britain,the Netherlands,USA, France,Italy,Germany and Japan - all operated and fought during the war.
Michael Wilson,an ex-submarine officer, presents an authoritative account of these Second World War operations using archive material from all the countries that were involved.It is not intended to be a detailed comprehensive chronology of who sunk what and when,but rather a look at the overall picture of how the submarines were deployed and the level of success they achieved.
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