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...BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC, 1939-1943 (432 pp.)-Samuel Eliot Morison-Little, Brown...
When Harvard Historian Samuel Eliot Morison offered to write the history of the U.S. Navy in World War II, Harvard-man Franklin D. Roosevelt enthusiastically gave him a free hand. Professor Morison was commissioned a lieutenant commander in 1942 and found every Navy office ashore and every hatch afloat open to him. He spyglassed the war from eleven different ships of his own choice. The Battle of the Atlantic, the story of convoys from September 1939 to May 1943, has been checked against German sources, appears now as Volume I of the gigantic job Morison hopes to finish...
...documents what was plain even to armchair admirals at the start of the war: that neither Britain nor the U.S. was ready for the U-boats. Readers will feel their hackles rise as Morison shows how close Nazi Admiral Doenitz came to wiping out the supply line from the U.S. to Britain. In the first 6½ months after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy sank just eight subs (the Germans were building that many every ten days); the subs sank 360 merchant ships...
...Hudnut, H. M. Jones, E. C. Kemble, G. B. Kistiakowsky, L. M. Lyons, D. C. McKay, E. S. Mason, K. F. Mather, S. E. Morison, T. Parsons, G. E. Perkins, P. J. Sachs, A. M. Schlesinger, A. M. Schlesinger, Jr., W. A. Seavy, T. Spencer, O. M. W. Sprague, I. A. Richards, S. A. Stouffer, P. S. Wild...
...successive editions Morison plans to deal with the Navy in the Pacific, where, he pointed out yesterday, the U.S. itself had an opportunity to utilize the undersea boat...