In Brief
MHM’s round-up of the latest military history releases.
u-boats
Divers explore ‘eerie’ wreck of WWI German U-boat sunk off Shetland
A diving team has explored the final resting place of a German U-boat that sank off the coast of Shetland during the First World War. SM UC-55 lies on the seabed some eight miles south-east of Lerwick. She was sunk…
This week: submarines
Underwater warfare came of age on 15 September 1914, when Germany’s U-21 became the first submarine to sink a ship with a self-propelled torpedo. The U-boat’s devastating surprise attack, off the Firth of Forth, sank the British cruiser HMS Pathfinder…
MHM128 Letters
Your thoughts on issues raised by the magazine.
War on Film: Western Approaches
In 1941, the Admiralty agreed to support the making of a propaganda film about the Battle of the Atlantic.
Defeating the Kaiser’s U-boats: British Anti-Submarine Weapons, 1914-1918
David Porter, MHM ’s military technology specialist, analyses the Royal Navy’s victory in the first ‘Battle of the Atlantic’.