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1st edition stiff wrappers As New octavo xxvi + 347pp., b/w plates, glossary, bibliog., index, They were known as "iron coffins" the German U-Boats that terrorised Allied shipping during WW2. In this volume commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic, historians from both sides of the ocean offer new insights into the conflict. The cost in lives lost and ships sunk was appalling, but statistics alone do not reflect the human dimension of this most terrible sea fight.…