The “Happy Times”: Hitler’s U-Boat Campaign in the Atlantic
Simon Whistler · August 12, 2023 · 24 min video · Europe & NATO
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It's the Second World War, and Britain is under siege. Continental Europe is quickly giving away before the onslaught of Adolf Hitler 's Third Reich, and it seems undeniable that before long the entire continent will come under Hitler's thrall.
Mercifully insulated from the land invasion by the English Channel in the North Sea and able to withstand aerial bombardment from the Luftwaffe, Britain is unlikely to be quickly or authoritatively steamrolled on the battlefield, and though neither side is sure that the UK can win a war of attrition, the British home islands are at least equipped to hold
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