Silent Hunters: German U-Boat

Here are the stories, in considerable detail, of six U-boat commanders: Endrass, Merten, Kapitsky, Guggenberger, Oehrn and Eck. Endrass was lost off Gibraltar in 1941; Merten played a crucial role in the war's longest- distance rescue operation; Kapitsky's surface-to-air battle in the Caribbean against overwhelming odds allowed many of his fellow U-boat commanders to escape into the Atlantic; Guggenberger sank an aircraft-carrier, had his own boat sunk and subsequently organised the largest PoW escape in American history; Oehrn was Donitz's staff officer but eventually got a command; and finally Eck's life was ended in front of a British firing squad in November 1945, charged as a war criminal for firing on survivors of a ship he had sunk.

T Savas
Softcover 215 pages 2003