Shadow over the Atlantic

Shadow over the Atlantic

EnglishHardback
Forsyth Robert
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
EAN: 9781472820457
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A unique insight into the U-boat war in World War II, focusing on FAGr 5, the Luftwaffe's only long-range maritime reconnaissance and U-boat cooperation unit.

German U-boats were the scourge of Allied merchant and military shipping in the Atlantic during World War II, threatening to isolate and then starve the UK out of the War. As Germany’s war against the Allied convoys intensified in late 1943, German Admiral Karl Dönitz called upon the Luftwaffe to provide a long-range spotting and shadowing unit to act as ‘eyes’ for his U-boats.

Equipped with big, four-engined Junkers Ju 290s fitted out with advanced search radar and other maritime ‘ELINT’ (electronic intelligence) devices, Fernaufklärungsgruppe (FAGr) 5 'Atlantik' undertook a distant, isolated campaign far out into the Atlantic and thousands of miles away from its home base in western France. The information generated and reported back to Dönitz’s headquarters was vital to the efforts of the U-boats, and FAGr 5’s ‘shadowing’ missions were assigned priority in terms of skilled crews, supplies and equipment.

Shadow over the Atlantic book tells for the first time the fascinating story of the formation and operations of FAGr 5 'Atlantik', drawing on never-before-published historical records of the unit that accounted for the reporting and destruction of thousands of tons of Allied shipping.

EAN 9781472820457
ISBN 1472820452
Binding Hardback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication date July 27, 2017
Pages 312
Language English
Dimensions 234 x 153
Country United Kingdom
Readership General
Authors FORSYTH ROBERT
Illustrators Laurier Jim
Illustrations 30 b/w; 40 col