Category: Kriegsmarine: U-Boats

A very dry factual account of their operations and losses. An updated version entitled The Milk Cows was published by Pen & Sword in 2009. ISBN: 9781848840089

Looks at U–boat operations in the Far East and Indian Ocean and in particular U 862'swar as one of the "Monsun" Group, ended only by internment by the Japanese in Singapore in May 1945. A good account.

Suhren's memoirs were originally published in Germany in 1983, although written soon after the war. This is a well illustrated modern translation of the war exploits of the man who fired more successful torpedo shots than any other from the Eastern seaboard to the Indian Ocean, but was regularly in hot water with the authorities.

More of a reference work than a monograph, full of tables and statistics. Accurate but uninspired.

An odd mixture of diary, commentary, and philosophy by one of the great U-boat Captains. Excellent however.

Follows the careers of several U-boat Commanders and demonstrates that they were a very varied group rather than fitting stereotypes.

Wentzel was rescued in October 1940 when U 32 was sunk in the Atlantic. He escaped from his British camp with Von Werra but the two were recaptured and sent to Canada where they repeatedly tried to escape – successfully in Von Werra's case.

A readable but lurid memoir. Werner first sailed in May 1941 in U 557, became second-in-command of U 612 in 1942 and later moved to U 230. In April 1944 he took command of U 415 and in August 1944 of U 953. He was one of the few men of the U-Boat Command to survive a full war career.

Another excellent detailed technical study in this series. A revised edition was published in 2003.

A profusely illustrated type-by-type survey.

Short reminiscences from 21 survivors - mainly crewmen rather than officers - cover a wide variety of experience.

Boat-by-boat patrol details.

CARRUTHERS, Bob. The U-Boat War in the Atlantic. 3 vols., illus. Stratford: Archive Media Publishing, 2012. ISBN: 178158060X (Vol. 1); 1781580618 (Vol. 2); 1781580596 (Vol. 3).

Told from the German perspective and based on German archives and primary sources.

BUCHHEIM, Lothar Günther. U–Boat War. [320]p., illus. London: Collins; New York: Knopf, 1978. ISBN: 0002118688.

A fascinating personal photo-essay which portrays the war in the Atlantic and life at sea as seen by a German war artist, who took an enormous number of photographs while serving aboard U 96.

JONES, Geoffrey P. Defeat of the Wolfpacks. 223p., illus., index. London:  Kimber, 1986; Novato: Presidio, 1987. ISBN: 0718305892.

Catalogues the loss of 35 U-boats in the winter of 1943–44, in the style of his earlier work.

LUND, Paul, & LUDLAM, Harry.  Night of the U-Boats. 204p., illus., index. London: Foulsham, 1973. ISBN: 0572008287.

Convoy SC7 was badly mauled by the first use of wolfpack tactics in October 1940.  Reprinted in 2010 as I Was There to Face the Night of the U-Boats. (ISBN: 9780572035761).                  

KAPLAN, Philip. Grey Wolves: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. 224p., illus. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2013. ISBN: 178159242X.

Captures the nature of life on board as taken from letters, diaries, journals and poetry.

PREISLER, Jerome & SEWELL, Kenneth. Code Name Caesar: The Secret Hunt for U-Boat 864 During World War II. 304p., bibliog., illus. London: Souvenir Press, 2013: New York: Berkley, 2012. ISBN: 9780285642027.

Describes the undersea battle between U 864 and HMS Venturer off the Norwegian coast in February 1945, shortly after the Enigma code was uncovered, resulting in the only sinking of one submarine by another in underwater combat.

An attempt to determine the facts behind the many rumours of landings of agents and secret bases. Organised geographically.

U-505 was captured in the Atlantic in 1944 and now sits in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Half a dozen well known authors combine to tell her and her crews tale and put it in context.

Six essays by well-known authors consider the careers of Endrass, Merten, Kapitsky, Guggenberger, Oehrn, and Eck.

A fascinating byway. Describes not only the voyage - which ended in her surrender at the end of the war in Europe - but the cargo, technology, and important passengers she carried.

Heavily illustrated with contemporary pictures and plans of the major Atlantic bases.

A modern tale, solving the mystery of a U-boat supposedly lost in 1944 supplying a weather station in Labrador. See Showell's U-Boats in Camera for the unvarnished tale.

A reference work giving details of every U-boat including lists of patrols and attacks. Appendices round out the picture.

A detailed examination of the bunkers from Norway to Bordeaux.

Virtually a reference book. This profusely illustrated book considers the crews, commanders, training, and operational life onboard.

WILLIAMSON, Gordon. U-Boat Tactics in World War II (Elite Series, 183). 64p, bibliog., illus., index. Oxford: Osprey, 2010. ISBN: 9781849081733.

An excellent primer and overview.

A photographic record of U-boats as seen by new trainee crewmen.

A good and well-illustrated account of the history, structure, and equipment of the U-boat arm. A second edition was published in 1987, substantially revised to take account of revelations on ULTRA.

Illustrated with many new photographs, this attempts to explain the tactical development of U-boat warfare.

A profusely illustrated attempt to capture life at sea and ashore.

U 297 was lost with all hands to a Sunderland west of the Hebrides on her first patrol. This is a brief account of her career and crew with a wreck dive report.

Uses many primary sources and first-person accounts to present some of the most dramatic and exciting incidents of U-boat warfare from both world wars.

A fully illustrated technical history of the workings of the standard boat of the fleet. Reprinted by Brockhampton in 1998.

CARRUTHERS, Bob. Wolf Pack: The U-Boats at War (Hitler’s War Machine). 125p., illus. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2013. ISBN: 1781591571.

A profusely illustrated account of the U-Boat war. Based in large part on the accounts of the last remaining survivors and using many contemporary photographs.

JORDAN, David. Wolfpack: The U-Boat War and the Allied Counter-Attack, 1939-1945. 176p., illus. Staplehurst: Spellmount, 2002. ISBN: 076073092X.

An accurate but basic run of the mill picture book account.

HAMILTON, Aaron Stephan. German Submarine U-1105 Black Panther: The Naval Archaeology of a U-Boat. 136p., illus. Oxford: Osprey, 2019. ISBN: 9781472835819.

A technologically innovative U-boat, it surrendered at Loch Eriboll in Scotland at the end of the war and was handed over to the US as a war prize. It was then the subject of intense testing and evaluation, before finally being sunk in the Potomac River. A fascinating study of the boat and what remains of the wreck.

HOCHSTUHL, William C. German U-Boat 156 Brought War to Aruba February 16, 1942. 40p., illus. Aruba: Public Relations Dept., Lago Oil & Transport Co., Ltd., 1962.

A well-documented account of the U 156 attack on the refinery and lake tankers in Aruba on 16 February 1942. It includes pictures of the crew, personal memories of the lone survivor, log book of the attack, and the lake tankers hit. Reprinted by the Aruba Scholarship Foundation in 2002, to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the attack, with a new introduction and postscript and a translation of the relevant part of the U-boat logbook.

KAPLAN, Philip. U-Boat Pens of the Atlantic Battle. 176p., illus. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2018. ISBN: 9781526705440.

Revisits these still extant bunkers some of which could hold a dozen U-boats. Contains some 150 photographs

EDWARDS, Bernard. From Hunter to Hunted: The U-Boat War in the Atlantic 1939-1943. 217p., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2020. ISBN: 9781526763594.

An experienced and prolific author provides another account of the battle based on individual case studies of convoys.

WILLIAMSON, Gordon, & PAVLOVIC, Darko. U-Boat Crews 1914–45 (Elite Series, 60). 64p., illus. London: Osprey, 1995. ISBN: 9781855325456.

A heavily illustrated basic guide to technology, training, tactics, and uniforms.

WILLIAMSON, Gordon. U-Boats at War in 100 Objects, 1939-45. 192p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Frontline, 2020. ISBN: 9781526759023.

Follows a fashionable style in presenting. one hundred images of everything from uniforms to individuals and the U-boats themselves.

SHOWELL, Jak P. Mallman. Hitler’s Attack U-Boats: The Kriegsmarine’s WWII Submarine Strike Force.  232p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Frontline, 2020. ISBN: 9781526771018.

Another excellent work from this prolific author. Roughly half text and half illustrations explore how the boats were built and operated.       

EDWARDS, Bernard. U-Boats Beyond Biscay: Dönitz Looks to New Horizons. 204p., illus., Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2017. ISBN: 973919848.

Tells the story of the U-boat war on the American Eastern seaboard, West Africa and the Mediterranean.

ROBERTSON, Terence. The Golden Horseshoe. 210p., illus., index. London: Evans, 1955; New York: Dutton,1956.

Describes Germany’s most successful U-boat Commander, Otto Kretschmer, and his boat U 99, which bore a golden horseshoe as its crest. His victims included three Armed Merchant Cruisers before he was sunk and captured by Captain Walker in 1941. Reissued in 1980 with the title Night Raider of the Atlantic, which was also the title of the original American edition. Republished in 2000 in paperback by Tempus in the Fortunes of War Series, ISBN: 0752420194.

BOROWIAK, Mariusz & WYTYKOWSKI, Peter. U-Boot’s Escape to South America: Secret of the Gray Wolves. 168p., bibliog., illus. Lublin: Kagero, 2019. ISBN: 9788366148239.

A revisionist history which examines the many myths surrounding German submarines transporting goods, treasure and senior Nazis to Argentina at the end of the war. Based on numerous unpublished documents and focused on the sagas of U-530 and U-977, this is a useful antidote to the tales of conspiracy theorists. Very poorly edited which makes some of the text difficult to follow.

PATERSON, Lawrence. The U-Boat War: A Global History 1939-45. 336p., bibliog., illus., index. Oxford: Osprey, 2022. ISBN: 9781472848253.    

A comprehensive review by a well-known author on the topic.

HAMILTON, Aaron Stephan. Knight of the North Atlantic: Baron Siegfried von Forstner and the War Patrols of U-402 1941-1943. 256p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Seaforth, 2022. ISBN: 1399096729.

The biography of a successful U-boat commander who was on his eighth patrol when U-402 was sunk with both hands. The story is enriched and made more poignant by the fact that the authors maternal grandfather had served on the boat as a cook during its first four patrols.

RUST, Eric C. U-boat Commander Oskar Kusch: Anatomy of a Nazi-Era Betrayal and Judicial Murder (Studies in Naval History and Sea Power). 384p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis, MD.; Naval Institute Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781682475140.

A well-written and meticulously researched study examines the commander of U 154 who was denounced by his executive officer – a fanatic Nazi – and executed in 1944 for supposedly undermining the will to resist.

SCHAEFFER, Heinz. U-Boat 977. 207p., illus. London: Kimber, 1952; New York: Norton, 1953.

An atmospheric biography by the captain credited popularly with carrying Hitler to South America in 1945. Reprinted in 2003 by Wrens Park with a foreword by Nicholas Monsarrat and the new subtitle The True Story of the U-Boat that Escaped to Argentina, ISBN: 0905778871, then again reprinted by Greenhill in 2017, ISBN: 9781784382490, with an introduction by Marcus Faulkner.

WALLER, Derek. The Surrender of the U-Boat Fleet 1945. 328p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Seaforth, 2025. ISBN: 9781036135492.
Offers a comprehensive record of the surrender of the 156 vessels which surrendered, and also includes the story of the 200 or so U-boats which were scuttled, rather than surrendered, in the final days of the war. Also includes details of others which have been raised since and then either been used or scrapped. An excellent work of scholarship.    
 

FORSYTH, Robert. Shadow Over the Atlantic: The Luftwaffe and the U-Boats 1943-45. 312p., bibliog., illus., index. Oxford: Osprey, 2017. ISBN: 9781472820457.

FAGr 5 flew Ju290’s from Western France on long range reconnaissance missions over the Atlantic, spotting convoys for U-boats. Draws on unpublished records to tell this story for the first time.

KAPLAN, Philip. Grey Wolves: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. 224p., illus. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2013. ISBN: 178159242X.

Captures the nature of life on board as taken from letters, diaries, journals and poetry, but offers no real fresh insights.

NIESTLÉ, Axel. German U-Boat Losses during World War II: Details of Destruction. viii, 305p., index. Annapolis: NIP, 1998. ISBN: 1557506418.

An up-to-date and authoritative tabular listing of losses, which claims to have revised twenty per cent of previous assumptions on reasons for loss. An important book by an important historian. A new eition was published in the UK by Pen & Sword in 2014 (ISBN: 9781848322103). 

The Wolf Packs (The Third Reich). 192p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Time-Life, 1989

A well illustrated basic history of the U-boat arm. Reprinted in 2004, ISBN: 184447075X.

WILLMANN, Klaus. U-188: A German Submariner’s Account of the War at Sea 1941-1945. x, 196p., illus. London: Frontline, 2015. ISBN: 9781848327603.

He joined up aged 17 and this describes his service from the Atlantic to the Far East. Service recollected many years later is sometimes more atmospheric than accurate.

BOTTING, Douglas. The U-Boats (The Seafarers). 176p., bibliog., illus., index. Amsterdam: Time-Life Books, 1981. ISBN: 0809427249.

Just over half the book concerns WWII and gives a well-illustrated but mundane account of the war fought by the U-boats.

PATERSON, Lawrence. Donitz’s Last Gamble: the Inshore U-Boat Campaign 1944-45. 208p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Seaforth, 2008. ISBN: 9781844157143.

After the D-Day landings Donitz withdrew his U-boats from the Atlantic and sent them into coastal waters, where they could harass the shipping supplying the Allied armies. Caught unawares by this change, the Allied anti-submarine forces were ill-prepared for the challenges of inshore warfare.

HANSEN, Peter C. Execution for Duty: The Life, Trial and Murder of a U-Boat Captain. xv,[3]286p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2005. ISBN: 1844153223.

The story of Oscar Kusch, a U-boat captain who was shot for treason in 1944. Describes his career, the trumped up charges against him and how the real story of his fate emerged.

VAUSE, Jordan. U-Boat Ace: The Story of Wolfgang Luth. xxi, 235p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis: NIP, 1990; Shrewsbury: Airlife, 1992. ISBN: 1853102717.

A biography of one of the most successful but least attractive U-boat captains. He survived the war, only to be shot by a sentry in May 1945. Reprinted by Greenhill in 2017, ISBN: 9781784382742.

A fully illustrated and authoritative technical work which includes much operational detail.

HELLWINKEL, Lars. Hitler’s Gateway to the Atlantic: German Naval Bases in France 1940-1945. iii, 234p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Seaforth, 2014. ISBN: 1848321996.

A comprehensively illustrated and detailed account of the occupation, creation of bases and Allied attacks. Based on his 2006 thesis.

BUNCH, Jim. A Shadow in the Sea: Germany’s U 85. 96p., illus. Inglis, Fla: Deep Sea Press, 2003. ISBN: 0939591006

Really a new edition of his first work on diving the wreck of U-85, covering her career.

SMITH, Alistair. U-108 at War: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives (Images of War). 154p., bibliog., illus. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2012. ISBN:1848846673.

Pictures taken from an unpublished album belonged to a member of the crew. They show every aspect of life aboard before, during and after a typical mission into the Atlantic, including some of the sinking of Allied shipping and the rescue of their crews.

MARTINDALE, Dougie. Gunther Prien and U-47: The Bull of Scapa Flow. From the Sinking of HMS Royal Oak to the Battle of the Atlantic. viii, 450p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Frontline, 2018. ISBN: 1526737752.

This detailed account charts the full story of U-47, its commander and crew. As well as examining all the main events in each of U-47's ten War Patrols, particularly the attack on HMS Royal Oak, for which a number of new conclusions are explored, as is U-47's final fate. Includes her specifications and gives descriptions of crew duties and life on board the submarine.

WIBERG, Eric. U-Boats in the Bahamas. 377p., bibliog., illus., index. Dering Harbor, NY: Brick Tower Press, 2016. ISBN: 9781899694624.

A very well written account of the neglected subject of naval warfare around the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands.

CAREY, Alan C. Sighted Sub Sank Same: The United States Navy’s Air Campaign Against the U-Boat. xx, 217p., bibliog., illus., index. Casemate, 2019. ISBN: 9781612007830.

An interesting narrative history of naval air operations from 1941 to 1945. In 1943 the USAAF transferred responsibility for ASW to the US Navy along with the transfer of B24 Liberators. This is the story of how the eight Liberator squadrons based round the Atlantic along with the growing numbers of escort carriers helped win the Battle of the Atlantic. Spoiled by many typographical errors.

HAMILTON, Aaron S. Total Undersea War: The Evolutionary Role of the Snorkel in Donitz’s U-Boat Fleet, 1944-1945. 416p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Seaforth, 2020. ISBN: 9781526778802.

Charts the last year of the Battle of the Atlantic, when new technologies such as the snorkel allowed the U-boats to move from the deep water of mid-Atlantic to the coastal waters of Europe and the US East Coast.  A well-researched and written account.

Although strictly a novel it deals with the case of U 852, which sank Peleus then fired on the wreckage killing many of the crew and with the subsequent war crimes trial. Reprinted by Harvill in 1999.

With their very long range, the giant Type IX U-Cruisers gave Admiral Dönitz's U-boat fleet global reach. Initially these boats operated with considerable success off the East coast of America and in the Caribbean but their main impact was in the Gulf of Guinea, 1942-43 which, due to the closure of the Suez Canal, was a vital Allied supply route. Two submarines in particular (U-68 and U-505) had a profound effect causing major panic by their hugely successful operations.

A good contemporary account of the U-boat war.

Follows specific commanders and actions to chart the declining fortunes of the U-boats from 1943-45.

Prien won early fame for his sinking of Royal Oak in Scapa Flow then built a successful record in the Battle of the Atlantic, until his U 47 was sunk in action on 8 March 1941. The book consists of translations of parts of two German books, the main one of which was published in 1942. To balance the wartime German view, passages from the British official history by Roskill are interspersed with the text.

An early postwar German view of the war fought by the U-boats, written by a former Public Relations Officer on the staff of the Admiral Commanding U-boats.

A popular account of the career of U 124. Her crew came mainly from U 64, sunk in shallow water at Narvik in 1940. Most of them commissioned the new U 124 which then saw a dozen highly successful cruises all over the Atlantic before being sunk with all hands attacking a Gibraltar-bound convoy in April 1943.

Giese was a merchant office in 1939 on the scuttled s.s. Columbus. He made his way via the United States to Japan and joined the blockade runner Anneliese Essberger for the run home to Germany, supplying raiders on route. He joined the U-boats as an ordinary seaman and after training joined U 405 operating in the Arctic. With his office status regained he joined U 181 operating in the Far East. After an abortive sailing for Germany with vital cargo the U-boat was trapped by the end of the war. The book has excellent photographs and is very good on the camaraderie of the crew. It also has a fascinating account of the treatment of German prisoners in the Far East in 1945.

Privately published by his widow these memoirs give the view of an enlisted man. It contains many fascinating stories, including chapters on sabotage in Lorient, the suicide at sea of their skipper, bombing raids, sinking ships, etc., and on the capture of U 505. Republished by Savas and Chatham in 2005.

Looks at every aspect of day-to-day life aboard U-boats.

A somewhat tedious curiosity in which the PO Telegraphist of U 764 in 1944-45 goes through the war diary of the U-boat line by line to prove that her commander was a liar, coward, and charlatan.

Basing his study on some 250 German novels, memoirs, fictionalized histories, and films, Michael Hadley examines the popular image of the German submarine and weighs the values, purposes and perceptions of German writers and film makers.

Possibly the most comprehensive published photographic record of the U-boat arm. The excellent photographs are accompanied by a very detailed dual German/English text. The English text leaves much to be desired as a translation.

An interesting and unusual perspective from a PO Telegraphist. He joined up in 1935 and in 1940 was transferred to submarines. The bulk of the book is concerned with his six war patrols in U 109, captained by Axel Bleichrodt. They had very mixed fortune. At the beginning of 1943 he was selected for a Warrant Officer's course. Early in 1944 he joined the new schnorkel boat U 234 captained by Heinrich Fehler. She was not ready for sea until March 1945 when she was loaded with a mixed cargo including uranium for Japan. The tenseness of the U-boats' surrender and subsequent imprisonment of and brutality toward the crews is well described.

Hirschmann was an engineer officer, mainly on U-boats and survived the war. This represents the war and travails of an "ordinary" officer who created a large photographic archive of his life at this period. He served in both the Mediterranean and Atlantic.

A history of this notorious camp.

First published privately in Germany in 1984, this appears to be the first English edition and is of the third 1996 German edition. A comprehensive listing of the emblems and their creation.

Attempts a detached but German view of their achievements.

When the Museum at Birkenhead went into voluntary liquidation, the submarine was taken over by the local ferry company and moved to a new site

A detailed list of boats with particulars of building and fate.

An almost entirely photographic record.

A good well illustrated general reference work comprehensively listing the submarines and unusually arranged by flotilla.

Covers the two French naval bases at St Nazaire and Lorient captured by the Germans in June 1940.

A popular account of the war of the German submarine fleet.

The revolutionary boat developed at wars end.

The history of U 85 sunk of the American coast in January 1942 and information about diving on the wreck. Detailed diagrams and underwater photos.

Attempts to describe the rise and fall of the U-Boat arm as a thriller.

Details the service records of some 1,400 officers known to have commanded U-boats between 1935 and 1945.

The Captain and some of the crew of U 852 were convicted of killing the crew of the Peleus with gunfire and handgrenades, after the ship had been torpedoed and sunk. A verbatim account of the trial is preceded by a long background introduction.

A photographic guide to the wreck off the Carolina coast.

A reprint of the US Navy's 1943 translation of a Kriegsmarine handbook, with additional illustrative and descriptive material.

A mixture of first and third hand reports by a self-styled research group. There are 22 mainly brief anecdotes, but three extended pieces on the mutual sinking of USS Borie and U 405, the sinking of Ark Royal, and the capture of U 505.

Part history of the Atlantic Battle, part autobiography from one of the senior surviving U-boat Commanders. An engagingly told story. US title: U Boat Commander. Compare Holm on his duel with Cremer.

A rather glamourised and heavily illustrated view of the U-boat war in all its aspects.

A competent account of a fascinating minor theatre of the war where the Axis partners uniquely worked together.

The story of U 69 from her launch to her sinking in February 1943. Metzler commanded her until mid-1941 and gives a good account of his experiences and a briefer account of his command's later career.

A well illustrated guide to how U-boats worked, along with operational details, very substantially from WWII.

During WW2 over 250 Allied warships from a dozen navies were sent to the bottom by German U-boats. This ground-breaking study provides a detailed analysis of every sinking for which source material survives from both the Allied and the German sides, resulting in detailed treatment of the fate of 110 vessels, with the remainder summarised in an extensive appendix.

Henke sank 26 ships in the second half of the war and this is his story and that of U 515 up to its sinking and his capture in 1944. He was later shot while trying to escape from POW camp in Washington - represented here as a form of suicide. An interesting account of an unusual character.

A detailed analysis of the crews - where they came from, how they fought, and how they changed during the course of the war. A good study.

U 505 was boarded and captured on 4 June 1944 off French West Africa by Task Group 22.3 under then Captain Dan Gallery. She is preserved in Chicago and this pamphlet describes her career and capture and looks at life onboard.

A short description of the backbone of the U-boat arm.

Formed in 1935, the First Flotilla fought until 1944 when its survivors were captured at the fall of Brest. A full account based on survivor's accounts as well as personal reminiscences. Commanders included such names as Kretschmer and Topp.

A heavily illustrated basic account which was also issued as a Pan/Ballantine book.

Formed in 1936, the Second Flotilla fought throughout the war with famous commanders and in renowned actions. A full account based on survivor's accounts as well as personal reminiscences.

The author has pieced together the technical details of the roles of individual crew members with extensive first-hand reports. These experiences - from cooks to engineers and from young recruits to battle-hardened commanders - build up into a picture of life undersea. U-boat men also had a reputation for making the most of time spent ashore, between missions, and a vivid portrayal of life back at the home bases is also drawn.

This illustrated record is unique in that it charts a complete history of a single patrol and provides a new insight into life aboard through the successes and trials of U-564. Photographed during the summer of 1942 by an onboard war correspondent they show a U-Boat in action in the Atlantic and Caribbean,

Builds up an authentic picture of U-boat life by describing her six wartime patrols up to her sinking in 1943 through the use of logbooks, technical data and personal reminiscences.

A well-illustrated history of German submarine operations, with half devoted to WWII.

An updated translation of a 1968 German work. Detailed tables, fully indexed, of all reported attacks. An encyclopaedic work.

A typical boat of the most successful IXB Class. Her 13 patrols from 1941 to 1944 are fully described.

Really a photo essay on the life and times of the Wegener Flotilla.

A profusely illustrated guide to the WWII U-boat campaigns.

An illustrated record.

U 333, commanded by Peter Cremer, torpedoed the US tanker Java Arrow off the Florida coast in May 1942. The tanker crew was rescued by the author's father, Kit Johnson, a Coast Guard Auxiliary volunteer, in his fishing boat. This incident is the basis for a story about Cremer and Johnson in war and in old age. The author visited Cremer in Germany and maintained a close association with him until Cremer's death in 1992.

Jones looks at some of the less well known U-boat Commanders who sank major targets.

A heavily illustrated work which attempts to record and depict the life of the U-boat crews using largely contemporary records, diaries, poetry, and art.

Information about diving on the wrecks of 11 U-boats from both World Wars in North American waters. In addition to diving data, the histories of the boats are also presented. Boats covered are U 85, U 215, U 352, U 701, U 853, U 1105, U 2513,and U 869.

A meticulously researched chronological list with details of each loss.

One of the series of detailed technical studies, with the usual excellent line drawings. In this case the translation of a 1988 German work, means that the format is a little changed. A revised edition was published in 2002.

A glossy souvenir guide to a U-boat raised off the Danish coast and preserved in the Mersey.

These were the backbone of the German submarine fleet.

Photographs and capsule biographies of the 145 (including three Italian) winners of the Knight's Cross in World War II. Translated from the German. A rather bare and unsatisfactory work.

First published in Germany in 1986. In August 1939, U-48 left Germany, commanded by 'Vaddi' Schultze, to take up a waiting position around England. It scored its first success on 5 September 1939. By 1 August 1941, she had sunk 56 merchant ships of 322,478 gross tons and one corvette. She was then transferred to the Baltic as a training boat. U-48 was scuttled on 3 May 1945.

Describes the six year task of identifying a U-boat found by divers off the American coast in 1991. Finally identified as U-869, this tells the story of her last cruise and of the mystery of her end.

An illustrated guide to U-boat warfare.

One of the series of small technical pocketbooks.

Heyda was captured when U 434 was sunk in the battle around convoy HG76. He was then one of the troublemakers and attempted escapers from his Canadian prison camp.