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Of all the threats that confronted his country in World Battle II, Winston Churchill said, just one really worried him—what he called the "measureless peril" of the German U-boat plan.
In that global conflagration, only 1 challenge—the have difficulty for the Atlantic—lasted from the 1st hours of the turmoil to its final day. Hitler knew that triumph depended on controlling the sea-lanes where American food and fuel and weapons flowed to the Allies. In the beginning, U-boats patrolled a few mls from the eastern seaboard, savagely attacking results of defenseless passenger ships and merchant vessels while hastily transformed American cabin cruisers and fishing boats for sale vainly tried to stop them. Before long, though, america was ramping up what would be the greatest development of naval vessels the world had ever known.
Then the challenge became an exciting cat-and-mouse game between the quickly built U.S. warships and the ever-more cunning and lethal U-boats. The historian Richard Snow captures all the crisis of the merciless contest at every level, from the doomed sailors by using an American freighter defying a German cruiser, to the amazing Allied efforts to break the German naval codes, to Winston Churchill pressing Franklin Roosevelt to join the war a few months before Pearl Harbor (and FDR’s shrewd efforts to struggle the challenge alongside Britain while still showing to keep out of it).
Influenced by the assortment of characters that his father sent his mother from the destroyer escort he offered aboard, Snow brings alive the longest ongoing battle in modern times.
Using its exciting prose and fast-paced action, A Measureless Peril is an immensely satisfying profile that belongs on the tiny shelf of the best possible histories ever written about World Battle II.
