Profiles of the heroic retired naval officers who took command of the merchant convoys and helped turn the tide of World War II.
As Britain came terrifyingly close to running out of supplies during the Second World War, a group of retired senior naval officers returned to the sea in the role of convoy commanders, and thereby turned the tide.
The Arctic Convoys
Convoys : The British Struggle Against Napoleonic Europe and America
'Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea' : The Story of 835 Naval Air Squadron in the Second World War
Battlefield Bombers : Deep Sea Attack
The US Navy and the War in Europe
The Battle of North Cape : The Death Ride of the Scharnhorst, 1943
Bitter Ocean : The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945
British Submarines in the Cold War Era
U-Boats in the Atlantic: The History of Germany’s Submarines during World War I and World War II
A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longest
The Ohio and Malta : The Legendary Tanker That Refused to Die
The Naval Warfare of World War II: The History of the Ships, Tactics, and Battles that Shaped the Fighting in the Atlantic and Pacific
