Creator: Bercuson, David J. Herwig, Holger H.

Date: 2017

Language: English  

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Coleccion Caribiana, Biblioteca Nacional Aruba
Long Night of the Tankers
Hitler’s War against Caribbean Oil 
David J. Bercuson and Holger H. Herwig 

© 2014 David J. Bercuson and Holger H. Herwig 

This book is available as an ebook which is licensed under a Creative Commons license. The publisher should be contacted for any commercial use which falls outside the terms of that license.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Acknowledgments
• Prologue
• Introduction

1. "Rum and Coca-Cola”: The Yankees Are Coming!
2. Attack on Aruba
3. Long Night of the Tankers
4. Martinique
5. “The Ferret of Port of Spain”
6. War Comes to St. Lucia
7. Torpedo Junction
8. Hunting Off the Orinoco
9. War Beneath the Southern Cross
10. The Allies Regroup
11. White Christmas
12. The Allies Strike Back
13. A Hard War: Hartenstein and U-156
14. High Noon in the Caribbean and the South Atlantic
15. Gundown: U-615 and U-161

• Conclusion
• Glossary
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

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Notes:
Long Night of the Tankers presents a fresh account of a lesser-known but critical component of the Atlantic naval theatre during World War II. Using war diaries, after-action reports, and first-hand accounts, authors Bercuson and Herwig examine the story behind Operation Neuland, the German plan to interrupt vital oil supplies from reaching the United States and the United Kingdom by preventing Allied oil tankers from leaving refineries in the Caribbean. The story begins in February 1942 and follows this German attempt to scuttle the Allied war machine through to the end of the war. Told largely from the German perspective, it details the planning and execution of the Germans and the diplomatic, political, and military responses of the Allies, particularly the United States, to overcome the German effort. Winner, 2014 John Lyman Book Award for U.S. Naval History (North American Society for Oceanic History)

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