| Entry Text: | PATERSON, Lawrence. Donitz’s Last Gamble: the Inshore U-Boat Campaign 1944-45. 208p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Seaforth, 2008. ISBN: 9781844157143. After the D-Day landings Donitz withdrew his U-boats from the Atlantic and sent them into coastal waters, where they could harass the shipping supplying the Allied armies. Caught unawares by this change, the Allied anti-submarine forces were ill-prepared for the challenges of inshore warfare. |
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