A true-life war thriller by the famed U-boat ace who presents an authentic view of the notorious wolf packs and their encounters with the Allies.

Jeremy Dixon's highly illustrated book is the ideal guide to the Knight's Cross holders and their wartime service.

That followed. His close examination of their lives reveals that many were extremely different from the pictures typically drawn of them. They were as varied in

When World War II erupted across Europe in 1939, Germany knew it could not hope to compete with the Royal Navy in a head-to-head naval war. Left with no viable

Details the service records of some 1,400 officers of the German Kriegsmarine known to have commanded a U-boat between the commissioning of U-1 in June 1935, an