As someone who has always been fascinated by the U-boat campaign of the Second World War, "Wolfpack: Inside Hitler’s U-Boat War" by Roger Moorhouse immediately caught my attention. I’ve spent ...
The United States was a month shy of officially entering World War 2. Still, a showdown was brewing in the churning, unforgiving waters of the Atlantic. The daring U-boat commander, Erich Topp, had ...
Werner Hartenstein pulled drowning British troops from the Atlantic Ocean in September 1942. The German U-boat commander was flying Red Cross flags and even radioed for help in English. American ...