From the shelling of the fort at Westerplatte, on the Polish  coast, on 1 September 1939, to the loss of thousands of German refugees  at sea in May 1945, the Baltic witnessed continuous and ferocious  fighting throughout World War II. In this new book Poul Groos chronicles  naval warfare in the region and covers such major events as the siege  of Leningrad, the Soviet campaign against Sweden in 1942, the three wars  in Finland 1939-44, the Soviet liberation of the Baltic states, and the  German evacuation of two million people from the East, and the Soviet  race westwards in 1945.Groos also explores topics such  as Swedish cooperation with Germany, the Germans' use of the Baltic to  train U-boats crews for the battle of the Atlantic, the secret weapons  trials in the remote area of Peenmünde, and the RAF mining campaign that  reduced the threat of new and revolutionary German submarine  technology. He explains how messages from Bletchley Park were the basis  for the RAF attacks on German coastal regions. Moreover, Groos provides  the political and military context of the war in this theater and he  describes details of ships, radar, artillery, mines, and aircraft.

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