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...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...
...wait for the chance to study many German papers from Grand Admiral Doenitz' confidential records which only his defeat could bring to light...
Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, originator of the submarine wolf-pack tactics, and for eight days at the end of the Nazi regime the Hitler-chosen chief of what was left; 10 years...
...with such dreadful people. He said that his fellow defendant Goring, for instance, was an ignorant and "immoral criminal type" who liked to play Nero at parties (complete with toga and rouged lips). At that, Göring rose furiously, had to be restrained by Admirals Raeder and Doenitz...
Although the Germans developed a defense against many of the detecting devices used by the Navy. Admiral Karl Doenitz said his U-boats were beaten by "Allied superiority in the field of science...