I don't know about Blair being anti-german, seems to me more like anti-british. As you say, he allows his background to slant his writing, which is a shame because it demonstrates poor skills as a historian and detracts from some excellent research.
He is forever keen to defend Ernest King and criticise british naval leaders (and seamen, and airmen etc, etc) without apparently appreciating the 'under siege' mindset of the british in the early years of the war. He completely fails to understand how important imports were in the minds of the british leaders, and thus criticises them from hindsight - again, poor skills as a historian (take a look at his stance on enigma/ultra, for a good example of this).
Still worth reading , though, as it is a good narrative account - it's the analysis and interpretation that lets him down.
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