Found this book in a 2nd hand book store. A must have for sub-drivers, whatever their alleigence. Very good background history & many good photographs & prints for all things submarine. Ask at your local library to order this in if not in book shops (last reprinted 1997). Quite poignant on p213 where it mentions the 110 U-boats scuttled at sea rather than surrender in 1945.
"Wolfpack; U-boats at war 1939-1945"
Philip Kaplan & Jack Currie
Aurum Press Ltd
ISBN 1 85410 451 9
Alternatively, if you want to read the account of someone who was there try
Iron Coffins by Herbert A Werner
ISBN 0-304-35330-2
For surface ships try
Three Corvettes by Nicholas Monsarrat
ISBN 0-304-35444-9
or
U-Boat Killer by Captain Donald Macintyre
ISBN 0-304-35235-7
or
Motor Gunboat 658 by L C Reynolds
ISBN 0-304-36183-6
Sweet!
Coincidentally, just picked up Iron Coffins yesterday.! Very readable, I'm finding I like it better than Das Boot in some ways (the only other sub book I ever read) Not as many long descriptions of the color of the sky
