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Shadows on the Horizon: The Battle of Convoy HX-233 Hardcover – January 1, 1999

by Winthrop A. Haskell (Author), Jurgen Rohwer (Foreword)
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Witness to the ferocious battle in early 1943 that nearly severed Britain's lifeline across the Atlantic, the author has written a brilliant narrative account of the battle that nearly claimed his life. His work combines meticulous research into original documents with participants' testimonies and reconstructs exactly what happened to the U-boats and Convoy HX-233.
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    1557508879
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Naval Institute Press (January 1, 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1557508879
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1557508874
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.5 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 0.75 x 9.5 inches
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Tony Marquise Jr.
4.0 out of 5 stars The Tide Turns
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2013
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Most accounts of the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II state that the Germans were defeated in May 1943 and could not win this battle after this date. I feel the Germans lost this battle before this. This book claims that the tide turned in April 1943 with the passage of convoy HX 233 from New York to England. This book is very well written and describes this convoy and the battle to get it to England in almost hour by hour detail. As such, I give a high recommendation. But, I still feel this battle was lost by the U-boats long before this convoy sailed.
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Marshall Lord
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent history of a WWII convoy battle from an author who was there.
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2013
"Shadows on the Horizon" is an excellent account, written forty years later, of a convoy action during the Battle of the Atlantic. It is also extremely unusual in that it is an account of a battle by a participant on one side who has written it to a significant degree from the perspective of his opponents.

Despite being written by an author who was present at the battle on board the American tanker G Harrison Smith, it is not in any respect a memoir. With the execption of one short paragraph written in the third person about the author's own observations, this work reads like a history book rather than an eye-witness account. The American author, Winthrop Haskell, settled in Germany after the war and spent many years researching it from German records and contact with german survivors as well as using American, British, and Canadian ones. His research is extremely thorough and the extensive appendices record a large number of published and unpublished sources. This book is also lavishly illustrated with black and white photographs of participating ships and individuals from all four countries involved (the escorts for convoy HX-233 included American, Royal Navy, and Royal Canadian Navy ships, and the author lists eight German U-boats as having attacked the convoy, adding that it is possible that other enemy submarines may also have been involved.)

The foreword to this book by a German historian, Professor Jurgen Rohwer of the University of Stuttgart, praises the book as "one of the very best convoy histories of the Second World War, which adds enormously to our understanding of the conflict in the North Atlantic.

Much of the book is written from the perspective of the crew of a german submarine, U175, but there are also chapters about the role of a US escort, USCG Cutter Spencer, and about the loss of a merchant ship,

The one paragraph describing the author's own observations from the bridge of the G Harrison Smith is short enough to quote in full. After reconstructing an incident in which he argues persuasively that the captain of one of the US escorts made a mistake which could, but fortunately didn't, have had catastrophic consequences by ordering an RN corvette, HMS Bergamot, to break off an attack, Haskell writes

"The signalman and asdic operator on the Bergamot's bridge reported that their commander was visibly disappointed and annoyed. The author, from his vantage point as watch on the bridge of G Harrison Smith with an overall view of the battle, vividly recalls a corvette flying a black flag going in to the attack ahead of the convoy, then of Spencer starting to drop her first pattern of depth charges. Wrongly assuming it was a team effort between cutter and corvette, it meant nothing to him at the time."

This paragraph, and the notes in which he thanks the people who helped him with the book including a number of former shipmates, are about the only time there is any hint of the author's own feelings, along with the very last words of the book, "We had to carry on."

As will be obvious from the manner in which he does not shy away from criticising his own compatriot in the section referred to above, the author has written an astonishingly neutral and objective account of a battle given that he was a participant - or at least a target, sitting on top of a tanker-load of gasoline which one side was trying to blow to kingdom come. Sailors of all four nations come in for praise, criticism or sympathy at appropriate moments - and the german ones get a far more sympathetic account than I would ever have been able to write for people who had been trying to sink me.

If you find this book interesting, two other books which I can recommend include " Walker, R.N.: Story of Captain Frederick John Walker " by Terence Robertson and "The  Battle of the Atlantic (Military Classic) " by Donald Macintyre.

I can strongly recommend this book about one of the most vital battles of World War II. It seems appropriate to close this review with the words which Winston Churchill wrote after the war, and which are quoted on the last page of the epilogue of this book:

"The only thing that ever frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril."
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3.0 out of 5 stars This is an interesting book with information I haven't seen ...
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2016
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This is an interesting book with information I haven't seen elsewhere such as the performance of U-628 and U-226 in this battle. Borchers was very unlucky his boat lost trim when it did. Maybe he should've fired a full salvo anyway--right away, then went deep fast. He might've hit a couple of ships and greatly improved his score.
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Penn Naim
5.0 out of 5 stars Not for the casual reader, but fantastic for the aficionado
Reviewed in Canada on November 15, 2018
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The Battle of the Atlantic is so big in scope and complexity that it can only be covered in a single volume with a broad sweep. This book is a welcome addition to the landscape, as it covers a single convoy, HX-233, in great detail and looks at it from a variety of perspectives: the strategic, the tactical, and the human perspective. Might not appeal to the casual reader of military history, but for those who are really into the nuts and bolt of the Battle of the Atlantic it should be most welcome.
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Mr. P. Kemp
4.0 out of 5 stars Good read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 28, 2013
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I bought this book as I had an old friend who served on HMS Bergamot and had done Atlantic and Russian convoys. It brought ti life the experiences he had gone through.
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