Action in The North Atlantic 1943

This War Archive set of exclusive programs presents the most comprehensive and definitive archive of Germany's U-boats and their warfare strategies ever compiled as a series.

This is the story of two wars fought at the same time on opposite ends of the globe, often mislabeled as a single war: The Second World War.

Marking the 60th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic this series vividly recounts the tale of the longest, most bitterly fought campaign of World War II.
From 1939 until 1942, Hitler's U-Boats - his 'grey wolves' - threatened to do what his air force couldn't and starve Britain into submission. The result was arguably the most complex naval battle in history. Battles might be won or lost, Winston Churchill wrote, but Britain's power to fight on - to keep itself alive - depended above all, on the outcome of the war fought in the waters of the North Atlantic.

This is the tragic story of the U-boats at war. Brave men fighting a losing battle against odds they could never hope to overcome. Out-numbered, out-gunned and out-thought, the U-boats were justifiably known to their crews as 'iron coffins'. Somehow the U-boat fleet rose to the challenge and even managed a brief flicker of success before their inevitable fate enveloped them.