Offers an account of the German naval strategy that led to the U.S.'s worst defeat at sea and describes the Navy's poor response to the German assault

Operation Drumbeat: The Dramatic True Story of Germany's First U-Boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II

History

Gannon, Michael

Americas

Harpercollins

German agent Peter Krug, an ardent Nazi, slips secretly into Florida to collect vital data on America's aircraft capabilities, but his mission is threatened by Father Anthony D'Angelo, a worldly and courageous priest

Secret Missions

Sports & Outdoors

In May 1943, Allied sea and air forces won a stunning, dramatic, and vital victory over the largest and most powerful submarine force ever sent to sea, sinking forty-one German U-boats and damaging thirty-seven others. It was the forty-fifth month of World War II, and by the end of May the Germans were forced to acknowledge defeat and recall almost all of their remaining U-boats from the major traffic lanes of the North Atlantic. At U-Boat Headquarters in Berlin, despondent naval officers spoke of "Black May." It was a defeat from which the German U-boat fleet never recovered. 
 Black May is a triumph of scholarship and narrative, an important work of history, and a great sea story. Acclaimed historian Michael Gannon, author of Operation Drumbeat, has done enormous research and produced the most thoroughly documented study ever done of these battles. In his compelling historical saga, the people are as significant as the technical information. 
 Given the strategic importance of the events of May 1943, it is natural to ask, How did Black May happen and why? Who or what was responsible? Were new Allied tactics adopted or new weapons employed? 
 This book answers those questions and many others. Drawing on original documents in German, British, U.S., and Canadian archives, as well as interviews with surviving participants, Gannon describes the exciting sea and air battles, frequently taking the reader inside the U-boats themselves, aboard British warships, onto the decks of torpedoed merchant ships, and into the cockpits of British and U.S. aircraft. 
 Throughout, Gannon tells the Black May story from both the German and Allied perspectives, often using the actual words of captains and crews. Finally, he allows the reader to "listen in" on secretly recorded conversations of captured U-boat men in POW quarters during that same incredible month, giving intimate and moving access to the thoughts and emotions of seamen that is unparalleled in naval literature. Rarely, if ever, has the U-boat war been presented so accurately, so graphically, and so personally as in Black May.

Black May: The Epic Story of the Allies' Defeat of the German U-Boats in May 1943

The dramatic national bestseller and remarkably exciting account of Germany's little-known U-boat campaign against merchant shipping along the North American Atlantic coast during the first six months of 1942.

Operation Drumbeat: Germany's U-Boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II

Harper-perennial

Literature & Fiction

United States

technician and Electrician Bible of terminology

Workbench guide to semiconductor circuits and projects

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

PRENTICE/HALL

Black May

The turning point of the U-boat war is vividly chronicled, taking readers on a thrilling ride through the Atlantic Ocean in 1943, the year the Allies used new tactics, equipment, and ships to destroy forty-one submarines, damage thirty-seven, and turn back the Nazi assault on Allied shipping. Reprint.

Military

Dell

A naval historian draws on newly revealed primary documents to shed light on the tragic errors that led to the devastating attack, Washington's role, and the man who took the fall for the Japanese tactical victory Michael Gannon begins his authoritative account of the "impossible to forget" attack with the essential background story of Japan's imperialist mission and the United States' uncertain responses-especially two lost chances of delaying the inevitable attack until the military was prepared to defend Pearl Harbor. Gannon disproves two Pearl Harbor legends: first, that there was a conspiracy to withold intelligence from the Pacific Commander in order to force a Pacific war, and second, that Admiral Kimmel was informed but failed to act. Instead, Gannon points to two critical factors ignored by others: that information about the attack gleaned from the "Magic" code intercepts was not sent to Admiral Kimmel, and that there was no possibility that Kimmel could have defended Pearl Harbor because the Japanese were militarily far superior to the American forces in December of 1941. Gannon has divided the story into three parts: the background, eyewitness accounts of the stunning Japanese tactical victory, and the aftermath, which focuses on the Commander, who was blamed for the biggest military disaster in American history. Pearl Harbor Betrayed will be published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of Pearl Harbor.

Pearl Harbor Betrayed: The True Story of a Man and a Nation under Attack

Henry Holt and Co.

For sixty years, myths about Pearl Harbor have proliferated. After six years of intense research, naval historian Michael Gannon has finally separated fact from fiction to re-create the dramatic events surrounding that fateful December morning. Drawing on largely untapped U.S. and Japanese primary sources-including overlooked or unknown military orders, code intercepts, aide memoirs, eyewitness interviews, and private correspondence-the author builds a stunning narrative that penetrates a smokescreen of cover-ups, top-level military misdirections, and faulty diplomatic decisions. In Pearl Harbor Betrayed, Gannon has accomplished what heretofore seemed impossible: he has set the record straight about the most exhaustively examined and debated event in our entire history.

Pearl Harbor Betrayed: The True Story of a Man and a Nation Under Attack

Holt Paperbacks

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Operation Drumbeat: The Dramatic True Story of Germany's First U-Boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II

Secret Missions

Black May: The Epic Story of the Allies' Defeat of the German U-Boats in May 1943

Operation Drumbeat: Germany's U-Boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II

Secret Missions

Workbench guide to semiconductor circuits and projects

Black May

Black May

Pearl Harbor Betrayed: The True Story of a Man and a Nation under Attack

Pearl Harbor Betrayed: The True Story of a Man and a Nation Under Attack