THE ROYAL NAVY AND ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE, 1917-49 by Malcolm Llewellyn-Jones ( 9781134172733 )

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THE ROYAL NAVY AND ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE, 1917-49

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ISBN 10:

1134172737

ISBN 13:

9781134172733

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

1 May, 2007

Series:

Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

Pages:

240

Synopsis:

An essential new account of how anti-submarine warfare is conducted, with a focus on both historic and present-day operations. This new book shows how until 1944 U-boats operated as submersible torpedo craft which relied heavily on the surface for movement and charging their batteries. This pattern was repeated in WWII until Allied anti-submarine countermeasures had forced the Germans to modify their existing U-boats with the schnorkel. Countermeasures along also pushed the development of high-speed U-boats capable of continuously submerged operations. This study shows how these improved submarines became benchmark of the post-war Russian submarine challenge. Royal Navy doctrine was developed by professional anti-submarine officers, and based on the well-tried combination of defensive and offensive anti-submarine measures that had stood the press of time since 1917, notwithstanding considerable technological change. This consistent and holistic view of anti-submarine warfare has not been understood by most of the subsequent historians of these anti-submarine campaigns, and this book provides an essential and new insight into how Cold War, and indeed modern, anti-submarine warfare is conducted.

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Routledge

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Non-returnable

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