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The United States experienced its most harrowing armed forces devastation of World Conflict II not in 1941 at Pearl Harbor, but rather in the time from 1942 to 1943, in the frigid North Atlantic and American seaside waters from Newfoundland to the Caribbean. Nearly seven decades following the event, the Struggle of the Atlantic still stands as the longest-running & most lethal clash of hands in naval background. During the whole duration of the issue, more than 30,264 Allied vendor seamen and hundreds of navy workers lost their lives. The proper stakes in the Struggle of the Atlantic were huge. In the event the Axis won, THE UK could have been starved into submission, the Allies would have been unable to marshal their pushes to liberate the Continent, and the Germans likely would have at least constructed a stalemate with the Soviets on the Eastern Leading that would have allowed the Nazi routine to stay in power. In Turning the Tide, armed forces reporter and author Ed Offley says the storyplot of how, throughout a 12-week period through the springtime of 1943, a small number of battle-hardened British isles, Canadian and American sailors flipped the tide in the Atlantic. Using considerable documents from archives in Germany, THE UK and the United States, and interviews with key survivors on both sides, Offley puts the reader into the heart and soul of the struggle - from the navigation bridges of British isles and American escort warships, to the key decks and engine rooms of Allied vendor boats in convoy, to the claustrophobic control rooms and wave-swept bridges of the U-boats stalking their prey. He also portrays the vicious bureaucratic struggles that raged behind closed doors at the head office of both Allied and German armed forces services, and the above-Top Secret Allied intelligence plan to split the German Naval Enigma rules. A thrilling story of the decisive naval struggle of World Conflict II, Turning the Tide is also a harrowing account of the way the Allies nearly lost - and in the end regained - win in both Atlantic and in European countries itself.
