The Defeat of the Enemy Attack on Shipping, 1939-1945

The most powerful justification of the convoy system of warfare ever written. A revised edition of the first and only volume of the Naval Staff History of the Battle of the Atlantic. Its own history, and that of the Naval Historical Section which produced it, is one of repeated invention, abolition and reinvention as successive generations ignored and painfully relearned lessons from the past. First established in 1912 by Winston Churchill, the then First Lord of the Admiralty, it was closed dow