{"id":93557,"date":"2025-05-17T02:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=93557"},"modified":"2025-01-14T21:28:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T02:28:45","slug":"battle-of-the-atlantic-1939-1940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/05\/17\/battle-of-the-atlantic-1939-1940\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1940"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FmNTpe_iKs0?si=bzeBn2uAVwlOzk5p\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Real Time History<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 3 Jan 2025<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 1940, Great Britain is under attack in the air and at sea. German U-Boat wolf packs prowl the Atlantic and sink over a million tons of shipping. 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Hearns, Hans Broberg, Fogeltje<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SOURCES<br \/>\nAssman, Kurt, &#8220;Why U-Boat Warfare Failed&#8221;, <em>Foreign Affairs<\/em>, Vol. 28, No. 4 (1950)<br \/>\nEdwards, Bernard, <em>From Hunter to Hunted: The U-Boat in the Atlantic, 1939-1943<\/em>, (Havertown: Pen &#038; Sword Books Limited, 2020)<br \/>\nHaslop, Dennis, <em>Britain, Germany, and the Battle of the Atlantic: A Comparative Study<\/em>, (London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2013)<br \/>\nKemp, Peter, <em>Decision at Sea: The Convoy Escorts<\/em>, (New York, NY: Sequoia-Elsevier Publishing Company, 1978)<br \/>\nMawdsley, Evan, <em>The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II<\/em>, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020)<br \/>\nMorison, Samuel Eliot, <em>The Battle of the Atlantic: September 1939 \u2013 May 1943<\/em>, (Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1962)<br \/>\nSymonds, Craig L., <em>World War II at Sea: A Global History<\/em>, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)<br \/>\nVan der Vat, Dan, <em>The Atlantic Campaign: World War II&#8217;s Great Struggle at Sea<\/em>, (New York, NY: Harper and Row Publishers, 1988)<br \/>\nWoodman, Richard, <em>The Battle of the River Plate: A Grand Delusion<\/em>, (Annapolis, MD: Naval Insitute Press, 2008)  <\/p>\n<p>\u00bbCREDITS<br \/>\nPresented by: Jesse Alexander<br \/>\nWritten by: Mark Newton, Jesse Alexander<br \/>\nDirector: Toni Steller<br \/>\nEditing: Toni Steller<br \/>\nMotion Design: Toni Steller<br \/>\nMixing, Mastering &#038; Sound Design: <a href=\"http:\/\/above-zero.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/above-zero.com<\/a><br \/>\nResearch by: Mark Newton, Florian Wittig<br \/>\nFact checking: Florian Wittig<br \/>\nExecutive Producer: Florian Wittig<\/p>\n<p>Channel Design: Simon Buckmaster<\/p>\n<p>Contains licensed material by getty images, AP and Reuters<br \/>\nMaps: MapTiler\/OpenStreetMap Contributors &#038; GEOlayers3<br \/>\nMusic Library: Epidemic Sound<\/p>\n<p>All photos and film in our documentaries are authentic historical footage. 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