Peter Carty

The deadly war game of the Battle of the Atlantic

Simon Parkin describes how a small team in Liverpool, consisting largely of young Wrens, developed a stratagem to foil the U-boats in 1942

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  • A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game That Won the War

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    Sceptre, pp. 336, £20

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