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Synopsis
"The conventional view of World War II as a conflict that was not fought in the Americas is debunked in this fascinating book. German submarine warfare was sinking one oil tanker or merchant ship per day in Caribbean waters in the worst months of 1942. The US merchant marine suffered heavy losses of ships and men, while the Allies struggled to contain the damage done to the supply of oil from Venezuela and airplane fuel from Curaçao to the United States. Puerto Rico experienced food shortages on account of German U-boat warfare in 1942, while Martinique suffered near famine in the aftermath of a British and American blockade induced by the Vichy government's control of the Caribbean island. The US invested billions in military installments on the British and American islands and transformed Puerto Rico into 'the Gibraltar of the Caribbean.' This is a compelling narrative based on contemporary newspapers, doctoral dissertations, and primary archival sources."
-César Ayala (UCLA), Author of Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History Since 1898 and other books
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À propos de l'auteur
José L. Bolívar Fresneda is the author of Guerra, banca y desarrollo: el Banco de Fomento y la industrialización de Puerto Rico; co-author of Battleship Vieques: Puerto Rico from World War II to the Korean War- named Distinguished Academic Title- and Fundador de la República.
Federico Pérez Carbó y sus combates por la independencia de Cuba (1855-1902); also autor and coeditor of Island at War: Puerto Rico in the crucible of the Second World War, Puerto Rico en la Segunda Guerra Mundial: Baluarte del Caribe and Puerto Rico en la Segunda Guerra Mundial: El Escenario Regional. He is currently a professor at the Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe. Many of his writings and lectures at available at: www.joselbolivar.com.
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The Caribbean Front in World War II: The Untold Story of U-Boats, Spies, and Economic Warfare
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Paperback. Etat : New. The United States during World War II was unprepared for one of Germany's most destructive war efforts: a U-boat assault on Allied ships in the Caribbean that sank about 400 tankers and merchant ships, with few losses to the German submarine fleet. The Germans had set up a network of spies and had the secret support of some dictators, including the Dominican Republic's Rafael Trujillo, supplying their U-boats with fuel.The Caribbean was of crucial strategic importance to the Allies. Roughly 95 percent of the oil sustaining the East Coast of the United States came from the region, along with bauxite, required to manufacture airplanes. The United States invested billions of dollars to build bases, landing strips, roads, and other military infrastructure on the Puerto Rico and secured a 99-year lease on all the British bases located in the Caribbean. The United States also struck an agreement with neutral Vichy France to keep the French Navy in the harbor of Martinique, preventing it from being turned over to the Germans, in exchange for a food supply for the island.Elsewhere, however, the German blockade was taking a dire human toll. All of the islands experienced a drastic food shortage. The US military buildup created jobs and income, but locals were paid a third as much as continental workers. The military also brought its segregationist policies to the islands, creating further tensions and resentment.The sacrifice of the Caribbean people was bitter, but their participation in the war effort was also decisive: The U-boat menace more or less disappeared from the region in late 1943, thanks to their work building up the US military operation. N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9781558769557
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