Decision in the Atlantic: the Allies and the longest campaign of the Second World War

In: New perspectives on the Second World War

Abstract

The Atlantic war, 1939-1945: the case for a new paradigm / Marc Milner -- The view from the top: Winston Churchill, British grand strategy, and the Battle of the Atlantic / Christopher M. Bell -- "Immobilized by reason of repair" and by the choice "between Lithgow and Hitler" : class conflict in Britain's wartime merchant shipping repair yards / Kevin Smith -- Brothers in arms : the Admiralty, the Air Ministry, and the Battle of the Atlantic / Tim Benbow -- The Fleet Air Arm and trade defense, 1939-1944 / Ben Jones -- All should be "A" teams: the development of group anti-submarine escort training in the British and Canadian navies during the Atlantic campaign / James Goldrick -- "A most disagreeable problem" : British perceptions of the Kriegsmarine's aircraft carrier capability / Marcus Faulkner -- Meat exports and the limits of wartime multilateralism : Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard's response to America's changing global role / Kevin Smith -- The other critical convoy battles of 1943 : the eclipse of the Schnellboote in the English Channel and the North Sea / G. H. Bennett -- The cruise of U-188 : Special Intelligence and the "liquidation" of Group Monsoon, 1943-1944 / David Kohnen.