Author: Middlebrook, Martin,
Title: CONVOY - The Battle for Convoys SC.122 and HX.229.
Description: Allen Lane, London, 1976, 1st edn., x, 378pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., 8 maps and 3 diagrams in text, photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, comprehensive account of two convoys, SC122 and HX229 (and HX229A), which in March 1943, at the height of the Battle of the Atlantic, set out from North America bound for the British Isles. Ranged against them were 44 U-boats which, despite the best efforts of the 21 escort vessels, claimed 22 merchant ships. This account covers in detail the composition of the convoys, the various tactical moves made by both sides prior to and during the crossing as well as relating the events as they happened, with appendices containing detailed lists of all vessels involved, merchant, escort and U-boats, a roll of honour and an analysis of U-boat losses 1939-1945 light sunning to cloth at upper edges of boards, tanning to edges, ink name stamp front free endpaper, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed with very sl. loss at tips., very good in a very good dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 navy convoy atlantic sc122 hx229 hx229a u-boats a/s


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