A Game of Birds and Wolves
The Secret Game that Revolutionised the War
(Sprache: Englisch)
'Compelling' Sunday Times
'A triumph' Daily Mirror
'Gripping' Jonathan Dimbleby
1941. The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Thousands of supply ships ferrying vital food and fuel from North America to Britain are being...
'A triumph' Daily Mirror
'Gripping' Jonathan Dimbleby
1941. The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Thousands of supply ships ferrying vital food and fuel from North America to Britain are being...
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'Compelling' Sunday Times'A triumph' Daily Mirror
'Gripping' Jonathan Dimbleby
1941. The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Thousands of supply ships ferrying vital food and fuel from North America to Britain are being torpedoed by German U-boats. Britain is only weeks away from starvation - and with that, crushing defeat.
In the first week of 1942 a group of unlikely heroes - a retired naval captain and a clutch of brilliant young women - gather to form a secret strategy unit. On the top floor of a bomb-bruised HQ in Liverpool, the Western Approaches Tactical Unit spends days and nights designing and playing wargames in an effort to crack the U-boat tactics. As the U-boat wolfpacks continue to prey upon the supply ships, the Wrens race against time to save Britain.
With novelistic flair, investigative journalist Simon Parkin shines a light on Operation Raspberry and these unsung heroines in this riveting true story of war at sea.
'History writing at its best' Booklist
'Splendid . . . Simon Parkin's book rips along at full sail and is full of personality and personalities'
Sunday Express
'Vivid, engaging' New Yorker
Autoren-Porträt von Simon Parkin
Simon Parkin is an award-winning British writer and journalist. He is a contributing writer for the New Yorker and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS), and is the author of A Game of Birds and Wolves and The Island of Extraordinary Captives, which was a New Yorker Book of the Year and won the Wingate Literary Prize. He lives in West Sussex.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Simon Parkin
- 2020, 320 Seiten, Masse: 12,9 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Sceptre
- ISBN-10: 1529353211
- ISBN-13: 9781529353211
- Erscheinungsdatum: 06.11.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
[A] splendid new history of the war in the Atlantic . . . Simon Parkin's book rips along at full sail and is full of personality and personalities. Above all, it brings a barely known aspect of the sea war out into the light. Which is a triumph in itself. John Lewis Stempel Sunday Express 20191103
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