The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence: U-Boat Situations and Trends, 1941-1945

ISBN-13: 9781840142952 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 676 str.

David Syrett

Opis

The battle of the Atlantic saw one of the first systematic collection and analysis of data, its dissemination to relevant personnel and the use of electronics to decrypt enemy coded messages. This volume examines the success of the allies and Germany's failure.

Recenzje

'Syrett provides a tightly written and very informative description of signals intelligence by the Allies.' Cryptolog, Vol. 21, No. 1 'Excellent explanatory footnotes and a comprehensive index make this fine volume particularly user-friendly. It is a fascinating collection that will become essential to the specialist in naval or intelligence history.' Canadian Military History '... the outstanding contribution this volume makes to understanding the Allied intelligence triumph...' International Journal of Maritime History 'Syrett's research has been thorough, the selection of documents is intelligent, and they illuminate the fundamental aspects of their topic... His introduction to the role of signals intelligence in the battle of the Atlantic is the best in print, and an excellent guide to the records and the literature. This work must be read by any student of intelligence, or of the Second World War at sea.' The Mariner's Mirror

Spis treści

Documents: Nos. 1-50 (December 1941-November 1942), Nos. 51-100 (November 1942-April 1943), Nos. 101-150 (April-August 1943), Nos. 151-200 (August 1943-February 1944), Nos. 201-250 (February-August 1944), Nos. 251-300 (August 1944-February 1945), Nos. 301-333 (February-May 1945), List of Documents and Sources.

O autorze

Born 8 January 1939 in White Plains, New York was the son of a well-known historian of the early American republic and editor of The Papers of Alexander Hamilton,. He graduated from Columbia University in 1961, completed his MA there in 1964 and moved to the University of London, where he completed his PhD in 1966 with a thesis on “Shipping and the American War of Independence”. He became Distinguished Professor of History at Queen’s College, City University of New York.  His principal areas of interest were eighteenth-century British naval history and the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II.  He died in New York on 18 October 2004, and his widow, Elena Frangakis-Syrett, has published some of his work posthumously.