Wolfpack: inside Hitler’s U-boat war

As Roger Moorhouse suggests in the introduction to Wolfpack, it was natural that post-war English language books about the Battle of the Atlantic would largely ignore the German perspective on the conflict. After the horrors of war, a kind of patriotic Anglo-centricity was an understandable response. The acclaimed 1981 film Das Boot was unusual in seeing the struggle from the viewpoint of the U-boat crews. Since then, a number of studies have started to open up this once-neglected field. Wolfpack integrates a narrative of the whole undersea campaign with a close look at the lives of the U-boat men. The author takes the reader through the various phases of the U-boat war: from initial succ