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A GAME OF BIRDS AND WOLVES - SIMON PARKIN KARTO...

'Compelling' Sunday Times'A triumph' Daily Mirror'Gripping' Jonathan Dimbleby1941. 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 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. 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.'History writing at its best' Booklist'Splendid . . . Simon Parkin's book
rips along at full sail and is full of personality and personalities' Sunday Express'Vivid 
engaging' New Yorker

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