The U-Boat Wars

by Edwin P. Hoyt

Book Overview

The remarkably effective submarines (U-boats) of the German Navy devastated the Allies during the first part of World War II and very nearly brought British and American sea forces to their knees. Military historian Hoyt here describes the years when U-boat "wolf packs" under the command of Admiral Karl Doenitz terrorized the Allies, sinking a third of Britain's battleships in 1939, and how the Allies came back, developing anti-submarine weapons that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815411928
• ISBN13: 9780815411925
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Cooper Square Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Frightening in its pulse-pounding detail

Ably written by former soldier and distinguished World War II historian Edwin P. Hoyt, The U-Boat Wars is a powerful and vivid rendition of deadly historical battles of the submarines (popularly referred to at the time as "U-Boats") that raged under the waters of the Atlantic during World War II. Anecdotes are drawn from German, British, and American naval archives richly and vividly present heart-pounding dramas of lethal conflict in a pivotal, undersea segment of a war between the Nazis and the Allies. Frightening in its pulse-pounding detail, The U-Boat Wars is a frank and riveting look at the role of the wartime submarine and men who sailed them into naval history.