THE ROYAL NAVY AND ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE, 1917-49 by Malcolm Llewellyn-Jones ( 9781138010420 )

Item Details

Title:

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

By:

Malcolm Llewellyn-Jones

Format:

Paperback

List price:

£53.99

Our price:

£48.59

Discount:

10% off

You save:

£5.40

ISBN 10:

1138010421

ISBN 13:

9781138010420

Availability:

Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 0 available

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

12 August, 2014

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.

Publication:

Imprint:

Routledge

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

BRITISH NAVAL AVIATION DURING THE INTERWAR ERA, 1919-1939 (HB)

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