\'Compelling\' Sunday Times\'A triumph\' Daily Mirror\'Gripping\' Jonathan Dimbleby1941.
Simon Parkin\'s book rips along at full sail and is full of personality and personalities\'Sunday Express\'Vivid, engaging\' New Yorker. . .
As the U-boat wolfpacks continue to prey upon the supply ships, the Wrens race against time to save Britain.
With novelistic flair, investigative journalist Simon Parkin shines a light on Operation Raspberry and these unsung heroines in this riveting true story of war at sea.\'History writing at its best\' Booklist\'Splendid .
On the top floor of a bomb-bruised HQ in Liverpool, the Western Approaches Tactical Unit spends days and nights designing and playing wargames in an effort to crack the U-boat tactics.
Britain is only weeks away from starvation - and with that, crushing defeat.
In the first week of 1942 a group of unlikely heroes - a retired naval captain and a clutch of brilliant young women - gather to form a secret strategy unit.
Thousands of supply ships ferrying vital food and fuel from North America to Britain are being torpedoed by German U-boats.
The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. \'Compelling\' Sunday Times\'A triumph\' Daily Mirror\'Gripping\' Jonathan Dimbleby1941
