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BBC The Battle of the Atlantic 2of3 Keeping Secrets

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BBC The Battle of the Atlantic 2of3 Keeping Secrets

BBC The Battle of the Atlantic 2of3 Keeping Secrets
DVDrip | 640x352 | XviD MPEG-4 @ 1809 Kbps | 45 mn | Audio: English AAC 192 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None | 700 MB
Genre: Documentary

Winston Churchill once wrote that "The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril". In saying this, he correctly identified the importance of the threat posed during World War Two by German submarines (the 'Unterseeboot') to the Atlantic lifeline. This lifeline was Britain's 'centre of gravity' - the loss of which would probably have led to wholesale defeat in the war.
Keeping Secrets
During the first eighteen months of conflict, German U-boats were to sink more than three million tons of shipping off the American coast, severely damaging the Allied war effort. But by 1941, a vital source of naval intelligence promised to transform the war in the Atlantic, snatching victory from the jaws of defeat
BBC The Battle of the Atlantic 2of3 Keeping Secrets

BBC The Battle of the Atlantic 2of3 Keeping Secrets

BBC The Battle of the Atlantic 2of3 Keeping Secrets

BBC The Battle of the Atlantic 2of3 Keeping Secrets