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In the European Theatre of World War II, in no other factor was Britain closer to defeat than in the Battle of the Atlantic. With U-Boats, Vice Admiral Karl Dönitz planned to starve the United Kingdom into submission by sinking vital shipping. This series recounts the struggle of the Allies to find a means to combat this menace with new technology and tactics and breakthroughs in decrypting enemy messages. Taken together, the longest battle of the war is surveyed with the fate of the free world in the balance.
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Episode 1
45 mins
New testimony from British sailors and the U-boat men who hunted them, plus archive material and dramatic reconstructions, illustrate the threat from Churchill's one fear, the hidden enemy under the sea.





