U-Boat Wargamers

Sky History HD

2:00 PM to 3:10 PM

Sunday 3 November

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The remarkable story of retired war gamer Gilbert Roberts, officer Jean Laidlaw and the Women's Royal Navy Service (WRNS) - aka the 'Wrens' - as they use revolutionary war gaming tactics to defeat Admiral Karl Dönitz and his Wolf Pack fleets of U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War. The Second World War breaks out and a force of U-boats try to starve Britain into submission. Meanwhile, Vera Laughton Mathews recruits talented women into the WRNS. Narrated by Derek Jacobi