The Battle Of The Atlantic Quotes

“All around me was emptiness. Most of my comrades were no longer alive, the years of my youth had gone. Like so many others I had given of my best in a war which very few of us had wanted and in which the faith and readiness for sacrifice of the German people . . . had been most terribly abused.”
― Jonathan Dimbleby, The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War

“the struggle for victory over Hitler hinged on getting men, weapons, fuel and food from Britain and the United States to every front line. For Dönitz, whose U-boats were attempting to sever the British lifeline across the Atlantic, it was a truth that gnawed at his very being.”
― Jonathan Dimbleby, The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War