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Simon Parkin

Better Known

CHAPTER

A Game of Birds and Wolves

A Game of Birds and Wolves is about a group of war gamers called the Western approaches tactical units in the battle at the Atlantic. They were tasked with finding out why Britain was losing so many merchant ships to U-boat attacks in the Atlantic. The job of this tactical unit was to replicate the battles that see that were happening in the Atlantic using little board game tokens.

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