The Fighting Captain - Frederic John Walker RN and The Battle of the Atlantic by Burn, Alan - 1994

London: Leo Cooper, 1994. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from two very small marks to rear endpapers) with a near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xix + 204 pages.3 maps. 24 illustrations. It is not generally realised how close, how very close, the toll on the Atlantic convoys from 1940 until early 1943 came to bringing Britain to her knees. Without the convoys no supplies; without supplies certainly no Second Front. Captain Frederic Walker RN devised and employed tactics which were the only sure means of combating and ultimately defeating the U-boat wolf packs, but it was only when the Lords of the Admiralty came to employ these tactics that the U-boats were finally defeated. No one did more to regain control of the North Atlantic than Captain Walker. His relentless battle with the U-boat wolf packs, amounting to a personal duel with Admiral Donitz, is an epic saga which has long deserved a larger page in the story of Britain's history. The author, who served under Walker, recaptures the feeling of those dramatic days. 23. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.