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2. The Defeat of the Enemy Attack on Shipping, 1939-1945 : A Revised Edition of the Naval Staff History Volumes 1A (Text and Appendices) and 1B (Plans and Tables)

Author

Eric J. Grove and Eric J. Grove

Subjects
World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, German, World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations--Submarine, Shipping--North Atlantic Ocean--History--20th century, World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, British
Abstract

The most powerful justification of the convoy system of warfare ever written.A revised edition of the first and only volume of the Naval Staff History of the Battle of the Atlantic. Its own history, and that of the Naval Historical Section which produced it, is one of repeated invention, abolition and reinvention as successive generations ignored and painfully relearned lessons from the past. First established in 1912 by Winston Churchill, the then First Lord of the Admiralty, it was closed down on the outbreak of war in 1914, recreated with the coming of peace, closed down again in 1925 but kept alive out of his own pocket by the First Sea Lord, recreated six months later in a reduced form, closed down yet again in 1939 and yet again hastily reinstated when it was appreciated that experience in the First World War was directly relevant to the Second. In parallel with its own history it relates how in both wars the demonstrable superiority of the convoy system over any other strategy for the protection of merchant shipping - as one of the authors put it succinctly,'what was being fought about'- was repeatedly challenged as purely'defensive'and its resources depleted in favour of more glamorous'offensive'strategies, often with disastrous consequences. What its two authors, the somewhat maverick Lieutenant Commander'Willie'Waters and the more stolid retired Merchant Navy deck officer and Temporary Commander Frederick Barley, brought to their task was meticulous statistical analysis of the data on the war against the U-boats which enabled them to refute any and all of the arguments put forward against the convoy system and in favour of alternative strategies. Further, they were able to demonstrate that, far from being purely defensive, convoys and their escorts proved in both world wars far more effective at finding and sinking U-boats than any other strategy based around, for example, hunter killer groups, attacks on U-boat bases or attempts to interdict U-boats on passage to or from their deployments. Their work was given greater urgency in 1949 when their boss, Rear Admiral Roger Bellairs, returned'visibly shaken'from Exercise Trident which had been held to study the lessons of World War Two and apply them to a possible future conflict in 1957. Because the Battle of the Atlantic had been fought mainly by reservists both at sea and on shore, by 1948 only a tiny number of regular officers had knowledge of the higher direction of the U-boat war. Bellairs realised that, with Trident's emphasis on the'offensive', should a war break out with the Soviet Union in the late'50s, history would once again repeat itself. Waters'and Barley's achievement was to demonstrate that, even in the nuclear age, the experiences of the two World Wars remained fundamental to a strategy for the protection of trade in wartime.

Published
2019

12. The Steam Battlefleet

Author

Eric J. Grove

Subjects
Engineering, Waste management, business.industry, Superheated steam, Boiler (power generation), business
Published
2005
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17. The Defeat of the Enemy Attack on Shipping, 1939-1945

Author

Great Britain. Naval Staff and Eric J. Grove

Subjects
History, Index (economics), Volume (computing), Adversary, Computer security, computer.software_genre, Psychology, computer
Abstract

Contents: Introduction Revised appendices Index to iuntroduction Volume 1A (text and appendices) Volume 1B (plans and tables).

Published
1999
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18. REVIEWS

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CECILIA M. DOLLEY, ANDREW C. F. DAVID, E. F. GUERITZ, BRIAN H. DOLLEY, C. R. BOXER, SUSAN ROSE, ERIC J. GROVE, MARGARET DEACON, LAWRENCE PHILLIPS, CHRISTOPHER LLOYD, CONRAD DIXON, BARRY GOUGH, D. M. PAGE, B. W. BATHE, ALASTAIR WILSON, A. G. E. JONES, TONY HEPWORTH, and JAMES WATT

Subjects
History, Oceanography
Published
1985
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19. Allied nuclear forces complicate negotiations

Author

Eric J. Grove

Subjects
Politics, Negotiation, media_common.quotation_subject, Political economy, Political science, Political Science and International Relations, Development economics, Superpower, media_common
Abstract

Britain and France have consistently refused to subject their nuclear forces to negotiations, and both have begun major modernizations. Continued refusal could block superpower reductions and lead to domestic political repercussions.

Published
1986
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20. REVIEWS

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LAWRENCE PHILLIPS, ANDREW C. F. DAVID, DAVID PAGE, DESMOND WETTERN, SHELLEY WACHSMANN, P. R. COMPTON-HALL, C. R. BOXER, ANN SAVOURS, ERIC J. GROVE, PETER WHITLOCK, B. W. BATHE, EWEN SOUTHBY-TAILYOUR, BRIAN H. DOLLEY, W. O. B. MAJER, A. G. E. JONES, E. O.C. GODDARD, ANTHONY PRESTON, CONRAD DIXON, and A. G.E. JONES

Subjects
History, Oceanography
Published
1985
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21. Predicting the naval future

Author

Eric J. Grove

Subjects
Engineering, Sociology and Political Science, business.industry, Law, media_common.quotation_subject, Empire, Naval history, Development, Business and International Management, Nuclear weapon, business, media_common
Abstract

Naval history is a striking example of constant adaptation to technological development—steam warships, ironclads, dreadnoughts, submarines, aircraft carriers, and nuclear submarines. As Eric Grove shows in this survey of naval developments in the UK before as well as after Hiroshima, the atomic bomb and the end of empire have combined to make naval staffs rethink their strategy and the designs of their warships. His conclusion is that the only acceptable predictions are those that take account of contemporary trends—political and economic—however unwelcome they may appear.

Published
1989
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22. REVIEWS

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BRIAN H. DOLLEY, R. J. B. KNIGHT, P. K. CRIMMIN, EDWIN COURSE, LUCIEN BASCH, LAWRENCE PHILLIPS, ARTHUR H. WAITE, CONRAD DIXON, FRANK HOWARD, ANDREW C. F. DAVID, CHRISTOPHER LLOYD, B. B. SCHOFIELD, B. W. BATHE, JOHN MUNDAY, SUSAN ROSE, C. R. BOXER, and ERIC J. GROVE

Subjects
History, Oceanography
Published
1984
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23. REVIEWS

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BRIAN H. DOLLEY, R. O. MORRIS, AUSTIN FARRAR, ERIC RIETH, ANDRÉ W. SLEESWYK, B. W. BATHE, P. K. CRIMMIN, ERIC J. GROVE, LAWRENCE PHILLIPS, JOHN LEATHER, CONRAD DIXON, R. J. CAMPBELL, PETER WHITLOCK, ANDREW C. F. DAVID, and DAVID PAGE

Subjects
History, Oceanography
Published
1986
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24. REVIEWS

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R. J. B. KNIGHT, W. O. B. MAJER, J. D. SPINNEY, DAVID R. MACGREGOR, AUSTIN FARRAR, BRIAN H. DOLLEY, GEOFFRY TILL, PETER WHITLOCK, ERIC J. GROVE, A. G. E. JONES, CHARLES H. COTTER, and P. W. BROCK

Subjects
History, Oceanography
Published
1979
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25. Book reviews

Author

David Dutton, Paul Kennedy, Michael Geyer, G. C. Peden, Robert J. Young, M. L. Dockrill, Bryan Ranft, Robert C. Gray, Peter Nailor, Lawrence Freedman, Ken Booth, Eric J. Grove, H. W. Houweling, and Geoffrey Till

Subjects
Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations
Published
1982
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26. Book reviews

Author

G.C. Peden, Brian Holden Reid, David G. Chandler, M. L. Dockrill, André Kuczewski, Bill Park, B. Fr. Lindhardt, Eric J. Grove, Martin Edmonds, Wilfried Aichinger, R.J. Vincent, and Jeffrey Richelson

Subjects
Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations
Published
1985
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27. REVIEWS

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N. A. M. RODGER, P. G. HAMMERSLEY, KENNETH BREEN, SIMON VILLE, E. J. GROVE, PETER WHITLOCK, ANDRE W. SLEESWYK, B. W. BATHE, BASIL GREENHILL, A. B. SAINSBURY, ERIC J. GROVE, PHILIP S. BERGMAN, LAWRENCE PHILLIPS, AUSTIN FARRAR, D. M. PAGE, DAVID PAGE, and E. O. C. GODDARD

Subjects
History, Oceanography
Published
1985
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28. REVIEWS

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E. F. GUERITZ, ANDREW C. F. DAVID, ANTONY PRESTON, LAWRENCE PHILLIPS, A. G. E. JONES, WILLIAM R. JONES, E. O. C. GODDARD, PETER WHITLOCK, BRIAN H. DOLLEY, CECILIA M. DOLLEY, ERIC J. GROVE, CHRISTINA HOLSTEIN, M. PARTRIDGE, RICHARD WOODMAN, D. M. PAGE, ANDRÉ W. SLEESWYK, DAVID M. PAGE, MARGARET DEACON, AUSTIN FARRAR, RAY SUTCLIFFE, CONRAD DIXON, JOHN B. HATTENDORF, ERIC GROVE, B. W. BATHE, ANN SAVOURS, and BRUCE NICOLLS

Subjects
History, Oceanography
Published
1986
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29. Book reviews

Author

Keith Jeffery, Brian Holden Reid, Paul Kennedy, Michael Dunne, Ken Booth, Magnus Clarke, Eric J. Grove, Bill Boyes, David Scrivener, Peter Nailor, and G.M. Dillon

Subjects
Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations
Published
1984
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30. REVIEWS

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SUSAN ROSE, FRANK BROEZE, CONRAD DIXON, ARTHUR H. WAITE, LAWRENCE PHILLIPS, M. S. PARTRIDGE, R. J. CAMPBELL, MARY PATRICK, D. M. PAGE, ERIC J. GROVE, CECILIA M. DOLLEY, BRIAN H. DOLLEY, MICHAEL WILSON, and E. O.C. GODDARD

Subjects
History, Oceanography
Published
1985
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31. REVIEWS

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BRIAN H. DOLLEY, R. J. B. KNIGHT, WALTER MINCHINTON, ROBERT DESCUBES, CHRISTOPHER LLOYD, B. B. SCHOFIELD, N. A. M. RODGER, A. B. SAINSBURY, AUSTIN FARRAR, ERIC J. GROVE, PETER C. SMITH, W. O. B. MAJER, GEOFFREY TILL, J. D. SPINNEY, B. W. BATHE, MARGARET DEACON, and A. G. E. JONES

Subjects
History, Oceanography
Published
1979
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32. REVIEWS

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ERIC J. GROVE, MARGARET DRUMMOND, CHRISTOPHER LLOYD, ERIC MCKEE, P. W. BROCK, JOHN MUNDAY, ROBERT CRAIG, CHARLES H. COTTER, GRAHAME FARR, A. G. E. JONES, DAVID COBB, P. R. COMPTON-HALL, and BRIAN H. DOLLEY

Subjects
History, Oceanography
Published
1978
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