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...books on the war at sea were Volume IV (Coral Sea} and Volume V (Guadalcanal) of Harvard Professor Samuel Eliot Morison's massive history of the Navy in World War II. What war at sea meant for the Germans was compactly set down in Anthony Martienssen's Hitler and His Admirals, written from captured Nazi records. One book seemed certain to become a minor classic of its kind: British Captain Russell Grenfell's The Bismarck Episode, a terse description of the pursuit and destruction of the mighty German battleship in the greatest sea hunt in naval...
HITLER AND His ADMIRALS (275 pp.)-Anthony K. Martienssen-Dutton...
...battle of the Atlantic, the invasion of Norway, the preparations for the invasion of Britain, this mood persisted. Hitler told Raeder: "On land I am a hero, but at sea I am a coward." He consequently gave the admirals a freedom of action that the generals never had. Author Martienssen (a South African, who is assistant foreign editor of the Economist) believes that Raeder made the most of it, used his small forces effectively, and was individually superior to the run of German officers...
Gallantry. Says Martienssen: "Although . . . Doenitz's last campaign was both stupid and suicidal, one cannot but admire the gallantry of the U-boat crews, who, in spite of the overpowering weight of Allied naval forces, continued to fight in remote areas with undiminished spirit . . . The damage they did was negligible; the losses they suffered were enormous; and yet, alone of all Germany's armed forces, they fought on to the very last day of the war. Their record at sea during the whole war, too, was not as bad as it has been painted. Whatever they might have...
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