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This is an aspect of world war 2 that has gotten tragically overlooked. Without this, wwii would not have been won. It is amazing how much history and personal triumphs from ww2 are yet to be told.
Beautifully written. A true masterpiece. All very relevant. Enjoyable - cover to cover.
While i didn't like the back-and-forth writing style between viewpoints, the topic is fascinating and the information seems well-researched. Very interesting and informative read.
Simon parkin describes in vivid terms the peril britain faced in 1940 not only from nightly * by the luftwaffe, but also by the precision torpedoing of convoys. The amazing minds that won with war of the atlantic with a game boggles the imagination.
This book tells the story of the wrens (women of the british royal navy) and how they used an interactive game to help train ship captains in the best strategies for fighting back against the attacks of german uboats. The subject of this book is the o... Read More
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Quality
I have always been impressed with the women behind the scenes in our history
It flows beautifully with the right amount of detail and plenty of entertaining asides
The result is entertaining and mildly educational
The historical non fiction shows how easily history and lessons learned are easily forgotten with the people who lived it all
Shipping
Utilizing women as wrens the women plotted where british shipping and its allies shipping were at all times if known
This is the story of how the british navy figured out how to defend against and defeat the nazis uboats attacks on shipping in ... Read More
The nazi uboats were attacking all shipping knowing that if the british could not ship in enough fuel food and provisions they ... Read More
Packaging/appearance
Add the fact that almost all of the uks naval war games players were young women icing on the cake
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For churchill it was simplelose the ability to import oil food parts supplies and so forth and england loses the war by attrition
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When the history of ww2 was written it recognized his contribution but his team of women known as the wrens went largely unmentioned and forgotten
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Seems like there are more books coming out about the important but forgotten or glossed over roles that women played in wwii
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From the wrens of this book to osss v
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Unless the convoys could be protected they would have to sue for peace
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Current naval doctrine was simply not working against the uboat threat and the number of uboats was increasing monthly
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But in a few months these young women proved to be better at tactics than seasoned navy veterans and senior commanders
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I thought that this would be more story but turned out to be more documentary
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