Atlantic Nightmare

The Longest Continuous Military Campaign in World War Ii

By: Richard Freeman

Narrated by: Will Huggins

The battle that Germany should have won?

No other battle of the Second World War lasted longer than the 2,075 days of the Battle of the Atlantic. It raged from the opening day of the war in September 1939 until it ended almost six years later with Germany’s surrender in May 1945.

Vital supplies of food, fuel, and the raw materials needed by the Allies to wage war had to be transported in merchant ships in escorted convoys across the Atlantic Ocean, where they were at the mercy of German U-boats and warships. At first, many were lost. The fall of France in June 1940 gave the U-boats bases on the Atlantic coast, and U-boat production increased, allowing the Germans to now hunt in "wolf packs".

How seriously did each side take the battle? How far were they able to innovate their way out of problems they encountered? Who made the crucial decisions on how the battle should be fought? How was the crucial battle for intelligence won?

Atlantic Nightmare identifies seven pivotal areas of the conflict to answer these questions.

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Slanted Badly

What a complete misunderstanding of Dönitz. The author uses statistics to present a completely fictional “mind of Dönitz” to the reader. A bit weak. Also the narrators “German voice” is disgraceful. And “Germans” turn to “nazis” around chapter 25. Submariners become nazi submariners. And the snorkel, that idiot Nazi device. That device that just so happened to carry diesel/electric submarines all the way to 2024. What idiots, the Germans (says the author) .