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

✍ Scribed by Gannon, Michael

• Book ID: 109014206
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 4 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0060178191

✦ Synopsis

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...