Night Action: Mtb Flotilla At War (A Bantam War Book)

Here is Captain Dickens' full, vivid account of the heroic night-time feats and forays of Britain's MTBs. Small and primitive, the motor torpedo-boats had neither radar nor voice radio: it was their reckless daring that made them such dangerous predators to Germany's mighty coastal traffic. By dark they stalked, disputing narrow seaways where no large vessel could be risked, defying certain death as they careened against enemy convoys, aiming the deadly underwater missiles that proved so vital to the outcome of WWII naval warfare.