SHADOWS ON THE HORIZON The Battle of Convoy HX-233 - By W.A. HASKELL

Description: SHADOWS on the HOROZON THE BATTLE of CONVOY HX-233By WINTHROP A. HASKELLBRAND NEW - HARDCOVER & DUSTJACKET Witness to the ferocious battle in early 1943 that nearly severed Britain's lifeline across the Atlantic, the author has written a brilliant narrative account of the battle that nearly claimed his life. His work combines meticulous research into original documents with participants' testimonies and reconstructs exactly what happened to the U-boats and Convoy HX-233. AMAZON REVIEW"Shadows on the Horizon" is an excellent account, written forty years later, of a convoy action during the Battle of the Atlantic. It is also extremely unusual in that it is an account of a battle by a participant on one side who has written it to a significant degree from the perspective of his opponents.Despite being written by an author who was present at the battle on board the American tanker G Harrison Smith, it is not in any respect a memoir. With the execption of one short paragraph written in the third person about the author's own observations, this work reads like a history book rather than an eye-witness account. The American author, Winthrop Haskell, settled in Germany after the war and spent many years researching it from German records and contact with german survivors as well as using American, British, and Canadian ones. His research is extremely thorough and the extensive appendices record a large number of published and unpublished sources. This book is also lavishly illustrated with black and white photographs of participating ships and individuals from all four countries involved (the escorts for convoy HX-233 included American, Royal Navy, and Royal Canadian Navy ships, and the author lists eight German U-boats as having attacked the convoy, adding that it is possible that other enemy submarines may also have been involved.) The foreword to this book by a German historian, Professor Jurgen Rohwer of the University of Stuttgart, praises the book as "one of the very best convoy histories of the Second World War, which adds enormously to our understanding of the conflict in the North Atlantic. I can strongly recommend this book about one of the most vital battles of World War II. It seems appropriate to close this review with the words which Winston Churchill wrote after the war, and which are quoted on the last page of the epilogue of this book:"The only thing that ever frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril." * * * * * * SELLERS NOTE: all of the images provided here are for the actual book being offered. The first two photos were taken using a digital camera. A desktop scanner was used for the remaining images. This may account for any color differences. FREE SHIPPING!

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