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Hunters and Killers: Volumes 1 and 2 , Anti-Submarine Warfare by Norman Polmar and Edward Whicman (Naval Inscicuce Press, Annapoli s, MD, 2016, 272pp, illus, maps, biblio, noces, index, ISBN 978 1-59 114-689-6 ; $49.95hc) Norman Polmar and Edward Whicman have produced whac is arg uably che capscone hiscory of underwacer warfare in rhe cwo-volume sec H unters and Killers. Volume 1 secs ouc che origins and developments in undersea warfare from che earliesc documenced underwacer craft to 1943, when che Bacde of che Aclantic was leaning in favor of rhe Allies. Volume 2 concinues che scudy from 1943 onwards.
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prologue ro World War II undersea baccles. By 1914, d evelopment of che self-propelled torpedo, begun in che 1860s in candem wich advances in underwacer crafc, reached macuration in time co the give the submarine the capacity co destroy the largest ships afloat from a safe discance. The remainder of the first volume is devoced to rhe srruggle co overcome che menace of che ofcen invisible and silenc marauder. The auchors address the advances in ASW by all belligerencs during WWI, rhe incer-war years, and WWII. The descriptions and analyses focus on che Un iced Kingdom wirh srrong reference co che U nired Scares buc less accencion paid co Germany, France, lcaly, Poland, and Japan. Killing che killers required designing and conscructing new vessels and weapons. To locace the enemy under the surface and keep him in range, devices were invenced co detect and track submerged submarines using passive (listen for noise generated by the target) and acrive (sonar-dispatch signals to bounce off targets and report back co the issuing instrument) listening equipment. To find the enemy at the surface from a distance, radar had co be reconfigured from use on land co use aboard ships and aircraft. Because airplanes and lighterthan-air craft were especially useful in derecring, rhwaning, and even destroying submarines, flying machines by rhe thousands were assigned anri-submarine duty and small ai rcrafc carriers were built and dispatched by the score to accompany convoys of v ulnerable shipping essential to the war effort. Polmar and Whitman do nor slight the use of convoys to reduce submarine attacks. ASW was fo ught on the sea, in the air, and in the code room. Allied success in cracki ng the En igma code-the code the Axis used to communicate w ith its ships and U-boars-mulriplied rhe advantages of the com act advancements in ASW. Volume 2 Polmar and Whitman open volume 2 of H unters and Killers wich an analysis of the fin al years of World War II, when the Allies had vicrory in the Bartle of the Atlantic in their grasp . The Axis powers, relyin g on advanced cechnology co turn around a wa r going against them, suuggled to rhe ve ry end of the conflict with new weapons that
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