关于第二次世界大战的公认历史叙事主要将U型潜艇分配给所谓的“大西洋之战”，几乎就好像新世界和旧世界之间围绕护航队的斗争可以从陆地和空中同时发生的事件中孤立地看待。这已经成为一个几乎可以接受的错误。1940年至1943年间，U艇战争并不存在，大西洋战争也没有在其他战场之外发生。德国第二次潜艇战争的故事始于与英国和法国敌对的第一天，最后一枚鱼雷于1945年5月7日沉没。U型潜艇几乎活跃在国防军服役的每一个战区，除了南大洋以外的所有海域。此外，这些部署并不是孤立进行的；相反，它们经常相互联系，这成为了德国日益低效的海军战略。
这本引人入胜的新书将部署U型潜艇的每个行动区都放在了第二次世界大战的大背景中，同时也研究了各种地理部署的相互依赖性。它说明了U型潜艇通常与盟军和轴心国的陆地、海上和空中战役有直接关系，驱散了某些公认的神话，并揭示了U型潜艇的最终失败既源于混乱的德国军事和工业管理不善，也源于盟军在破译密码和武器方面的进步。
The U-Boat War: A Global History 1939–45
The accepted historical narrative of the Second World War predominantly assigns U-boats to the so-called ‘Battle of the Atlantic’, almost as if the struggle over convoys between the new world and the old can be viewed in isolation from simultaneous events on land and in the air. This has become an almost accepted error. The U-boats war did not exist solely between 1940 and 1943, nor did the Atlantic battle occur in seclusion from other theatres of action. The story of Germany’s second U-boat war began on the first day of hostilities with Britain and France and ended with the final torpedo sinking on 7 May 1945. U-boats were active in nearly every theatre of operation in which the Wehrmacht served, and within all but the Southern Ocean. Moreover, these deployments were not undertaken in isolation from one another; instead they were frequently interconnected in what became an increasingly inefficient German naval strategy.
This fascinating new book places each theatre of action in which U-boats were deployed into the broader context of the Second World War in its entirety while also studying the interdependence of the various geographic deployments. It illustrates the U-boats’ often direct relationship with land, sea and aerial campaigns of both the Allied and Axis powers, dispels certain accepted mythologies, and reveals how the ultimate failure of the U-boats stemmed as much from chaotic German military and industrial mismanagement as it did from Allied advances in code-breaking and weaponry.
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