As someone who has always been fascinated by the U-boat campaign of the Second World War, "Wolfpack: Inside Hitler’s U-Boat War" by Roger Moorhouse immediately caught my attention. I’ve spent ...

U-boat commander Friedrich Guggenberger became a national hero after sinking the "unsinkable" HMS Ark Royal. Later, after his U-boat was sunk by an American aircraft off Brazil, Guggenberger was ...

During World War 2, the German submarine U-852 sank the Greek merchant ship Peleus, after which the U-boat commander ordered the killing of the helpless survivors. At the war’s end the U-boat ...

On March 13, 1944, German U-boat commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck ordered his crew to machine-gun the survivors of the SS Peleus. We caught them and, after a fair trial, executed them on November 30, 1945.