Imprisoned in the Caribbean

<p>Winston Churchill recognized in his memoirs: ?The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.?</p> <p>His fears would be realized in the Caribbean: By the end of the war the Germans had sunk four hundred merchant ships in the Caribbean while only losing seventeen U-boats in what was called Operation Neuland.</p> <p>Begun in 1942 the campaign sought to cut the supply lines from the Caribbean to the Allies with the intention of strangling their import-based economies. Colonies of various empires would be left to fend for themselves.</p> <p>Dr. Ligia T. Domenech explores how the campaign hurt the people of the Caribbean focusing on her native Puerto Rico. Learn about the principal targets of the German U-boats in the Caribbean the United States? reaction to Operation Neuland the shortage of essential goods new industries that developed during the war period and the blockade?s long-lasting effects.</p> <p>To this day the public and even most historians don?t know about the blockade?s devastating effects and what it meant to be <i>Imprisoned in the Caribbean</i>.</p>