Bibliograph

A game of birds and wolves, the secret game that won the war, Simon Parkin

Type

Label

A game of birds and wolves, the secret game that won the war, Simon Parkin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-286) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A game of birds and wolves

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1120216734

Responsibility statement

Simon Parkin

Sub title

the secret game that won the war

Summary

Soon to be a major motion picture! It's 1941. Imagine you're Winston Churchill. The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Supply ships ferrying vital weapons, food and fuel from North America are being torpedoed by the German U-boats. You are lying to the country about the number of ships sunk. You are lying about the number of men killed. Without the supply ships Britain will starve. The tide of the war is turning in Germany's favour. This is the story of the game of battleships that won the Second World War. In 1941 Prime Minster Winston Churchill gathered a group of unlikely heroes - a retired naval captain and eight brilliant young women, the youngest only seventeen years-old - to form a secret strategy unit. On the top floor of a ramshackle HQ in Liverpool, the Western Approaches Tactical Unit spent day and night playing war games to crack the U-boat tactics

Target audience

adult

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