The Kaiser Strikes America: The U-boat War Off America's Coast in WWI

The Kaiser Strikes America: The U-boat War Off America's Coast in WWI
ISBN-10
1435720784
ISBN-13
9781435720787
Category
History
Pages
236
Language
English
Published
2008
Publisher
Lulu.com
Author
Peter Ericson

Description

In the closing months of the First World War, German U-boats attacked the American coast in a last ditch effort to slow the flood of troops and supplies heading to the Western Front. Though generally considered a minor event in the war at sea, the U-boat attacks in the summer and fall of 1918 brought the war to the very doorstep of the United States. For the American people this brought home the fact that they were involved in a struggle of global scope, and that their long treasured sense of isolation from the affairs of the world was a thing of the past.

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