A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game that Revolutionised the War (Hardback)

Simon Parkin (Author)

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A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game that Revolutionised the War

A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game that Revolutionised the War

£20.00 £12.00

A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game that Revolutionised the War

£20.00 £12.00
1941. The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Thousands of supply ships ferrying vital food and fuel from North America to Britain are being torpedoed by German U-boats. Britain is 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. 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. 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.
  • Publisher: Sceptre
  • ISBN: 9781529353037
  • Pages: 320
  • Weight: 0.56
Simon Parkinis an award-winning British writer and journalist. He is a contributing writer for the New Yorker and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS), and is the author of A Game of Birds and Wolves and The Island of Extraordinary Captives, which was a New Yorker Book of the Year and won the Wingate Literary Prize. He lives in West Sussex.

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