"The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril" Winston Churchill. Discuss

In both world wars, Britain was to find itself in a desperate situation. In 1917 and 1941 respectively, the supply situation got to such a severe point that it seemed that unless things got better drastically and immediately, then Britain would be required to sue for peace. Jellicoe declared in 1917 that 'It is impossible for us to go on with the war if losses like this continue' . By 1941 the joint chiefs themselves recognised that Britain was again …

…able to fully achieve what they could have done; the destruction of Allied shipping in the Atlantic. Bibliography 1.Engage The Enemy More Closely Correlli Barnett 1991 2.Business In Great Waters John Terraine 1989 3.Hitler 1936-1945 Ian Kershaw 2000 4.History of the United States Naval Operations in World War Two S. E. Morison 5.British Intelligence in the Second World War F. H. Hinsley 6.Oxford Companion to the Second World War 7.Dönitz, Peter Padfield 1984 8.The Great War, Correlli Barnett 1979