Автор:Jesse Russell Год: 2013 Издание:Книга по Требованию Страниц: 150 ISBN: 9785509100802 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! U-boat is the anglicized version of the German word U-Boot ( listen), itself an abbreviation of "Unterseeboot," (meaning in English, "undersea boat"), and refers to military submarines operated by Germany, particularly in World War I and World War II. Although at times they were efficient fleet weapons against enemy naval warships, they were most effectively used in an economic warfare role (commerce raiding), enforcing a naval blockade against enemy shipping. The primary targets of the U-boat campaigns in both wars were the merchant convoys bringing supplies from Canada, the British Empire and the United States to the islands of Great Britain and (during World War II) to the Soviet Union and the Allied Countries in the Mediterranean. Austro-Hungarian submarines of World War I (and before) were also known as U-boats. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в...
