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Originally Posted by Torvald Von Mansee
I, too, am reading Hitler's U-Boat War. I am still in the prologue, actually. I checked out the second book at the same time.
I thought the preface which pointed out the defects of the Type XX1 was pretty eye opening.
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Yes i thought that too. Most compelling of all is the fact that 98% of all ships sailed harmlessly across the oceans. Only 2% were ever sunk and there where thousands of ships.
So maybe there is a bit of a myth about Britain being strangled by the U-boats. The probable truth was that Churchill etc didn't want a second front and used the u-boat menace as an excuse for not re-invading France to help the Bolshies.
Churchill was a great politician but hopeless as First Lord of the Admiralty and Strategic thinking.