Allied Submarine Attacks of World War Two: European Theatre of Operations, 1939-1945 Book

In this authoritative reference work, naval expert Jurgen Rohwer documents the Allied submarine attacks against warships and merchant ships in the European Theatre during World War Two. The details of attacks are arranged chronologically and by sea area, and cover Soviet submarine attacks in the Arctic, Baltic and Black Sea, and British and Allied submarine attacks from north Norway to Morocco and the Mediterranean. Rohwer also adds information about Soviet attacks in the last weeks of the war against Japan in August-September 1945. Rohwer compares official attack reports with information about submarine attacks on Axis and neutral ships as stated in German and Italian war diaries and by experts in the other countries which lost ships in areas of Axis control. He is able to confirm many assessments and correct some inaccuracies in wartime reports and later publications. Allied Submarine Attacks of World War Two is based on original archival material and prepared with the assistance of experts in Germany, Great Britain, France, Poland, Norway, the Netherlands, Italy, Greece, countries of the former Soviet Union, Finland, Sweden, Turkey, the USA and Japan. It is a companion volume to Rohwer's Axis Submarine Successes 1939-1945 and John D. Alden's U.S. Submarine Attacks during World War II, and will be indispensable for naval enthusiasts and historians.