The German war on Allied convoys

For many years, Hugo Young’s This Blessed Plot (1998) was seen as the authoritative account of Britain’s semi-detached relationship with the European Union, as it had then recently become. This was a

WAR, EMPIRE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR A NEW WORLD

VICTORIES, MYTHS, AND THE BERLIN BLOCKADE

A liberal thinker about the American century

The article on the battle against U-boats in the Second World War in the November issue omitted perhaps the most important episode. That was the part played by the late Joe Baker-Cresswell of Bamburgh