The book's strength is the range of wartime scenes brought together on the page. The images include German material, Canadians on the move, Hamburg after bombing, and General MacArthur in New Guinea. The naval material includes an armed merchant vessel sunk by a British submarine, a submarine bombarding the Greek railway, and a boom-defence vessel. The Royal Navy's offensive submarine war can easily disappear from popular memory, making this a useful visual entry point into the conflict's global and maritime dimensions.
Chapter · 25:54-28:35
Hutchinson's images of British submarines and a global war
The pictorial series ranges from guerrillas and bomb-damaged Hamburg to British submarines attacking Axis shipping and coastal targets.