U-Boat Wargamers
The Game
Season 1 Episode 4 of 6
The story of Gilbert Roberts, 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. Roberts and Laidlaw uncovered a fatal flaw in the Royal Navy's anti-U-boat strategy and developed their own countertactic. Their next task was winning over the Admiralty. Narrated by Derek Jacobi
U-Boat Wargamers airs on Sky History 2 at 7:00 PM, Monday 16 September. (Subtitles.)
Topics
Education ➝ Science ➝ Factual Topics
History
Derek Jacobi
Narrator