Hitler’s U-Boat War- The Hunted 1942-45

by Clay Blair

  ADM 234/67 Vol. 2 (BR 305-2): January 1942 to May 1943

  ADM 234/68 Vol. 3 (BR 305-3): June 1943 to May 1945

  BOOKS

  Abbazia, Patrick. Mr. Roosevelt’s Navy: The Private War of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, 1939-1942. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1975.

  Addington, Larry H., et al., eds. Selected Papers from the Citadel Conference on War and Diplomacy 1978. Charleston, S.C.: Citadel Press, 1979. See paper by Boyd.

  Admiralty. The Battle of the Atlantic. The Official Account of the Fight Against the U-boats, 1939-1945. Official History. London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO), 1946.

  ——. British Vessels Lost at Sea 1939-45. (Warships, Merchant Ships.) HMSO, 1947. Rpt. Cam bridge: Patrick Stephens, 1976.

  ——. The Defeat of the Enemy Attack on Shipping, 1939-45: A Study of Policy and Operations (by F. W. Barley and D. Waters). Official History. Two vols. (1A and IB). London: HMSO, 1957.

  ——. Submarines. Vol. 3 of Operations in Far Eastern Waters. Official History. London: HMSO, 1955.

  Alman, Karl [Karl the German; pseud, for Franz Kurowski]. Many books, published in Germany 1971-1988, about the U-boat war, the U-boat “aces” or “knights,” and Dönitz. In a detailed analysis of these books, the Canadian historian Michael L. Hadley (Count Not the Dead, 1995) has aptly described them as “hackwork.” They include hardbacks and paperbacks in the Landser Military Series and from other publishers about: Albrecht Brandi (1988), Engelbert Endrass (1978), Werner Henke (1971), Hans-Günther Lange (1972), Georg Lassen (1976 and 1982), Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (1978), Wolfgang Lüth (1988), Rolf Mützelburg (1971), Johann Mohr (1975), Günther Prien (1981), Joachim Schepke (1980), Helmut Witte (1977). Much of the same material is rehashed in the following (or vice versa):

  ——. An alle Wolff: Angriff! [To All Wolves: Attack!]. Lichtsatz: Podzun-Pallas, 1986.

  ——. Angriff, ran, versenken! [Attack, At ‘Em, Sink!]. Preface by Karl Dönitz. Rastatt/Baden: Erich Pabel, 1975.

  ——. Graue Wolfe in blauer See [Gray Wolf in the Blue Sea]. [Mediterranean]. Rastatt: Manfred Pawlak, 1985.

  ——. “Graue Wolfe”—Wilde See: Januar/Februar 1943. [Gray Wolf—Wild Sea]. Rastatt/Baden: Erich Pabel, 1973.

  ——. Die letzte Feindfahrt: Mai 1943 [The Last War Patrol]. Rastatt/Baden: Erich Pabel, 1973.

  ——. Ritter der Sieben Meerr [Knights of the Seven Seas]. (Stories of 18 U-boat aces.) Rastatt: Pabel AG, 1975.

  Anderson, Frank J. Submarines, Submariners, Submarining: A Checklist. Hamden, Conn.: Shoestring Press, 1963.

  Andrew, Christopher, ed. Codebreaking and Signals Intelligence. London: Frank Cass and Company Limited, 1986. See papers by Denniston, Morris, and Welchman. [A hardback edition of volume 1, number 1, of the quarterly British periodical Intelligence and National Security.]

  ——. Her Majesty’s Secret Service. New York: Viking, 1986.

  Andrew, Christopher, and David Dilks, eds. The Missing Dimension: Governments and Intelligence Communities in the Twentieth Century. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1984. See papers by Rohwer and Stengers.

  Andrew, Christopher, and J. Noakes, eds. Intelligence and International Relations, 1900-1945. Exeter: Exeter University Publications, 1987. See papers by Beesly, Bennett, Chapman, Hinsley, Röhwer, and Thomas.

  Arnold, Henry H. Global Mission. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949.

  Auphan, Paul and Jacques Mordal [pseud, for Hervé Cras]. The French Navy in World War II. Trans. A.C.J. Sabalot. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1959.

  Axis Submarine Losses: See Naval History Division.

  Bagnasco, Erminio. Submarines of World War Two. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1977.

  Bailey, Thomas A., and Paul B. Ryan. Hitler vs. Roosevelt: The Undeclared Naval War. New York: The Free Press, 1979.

  Barnett, Correlli. Engage the Enemy More Closely. (Royal Navy in World War II.) New York: W. W Norton & Co., 1991.

  Bauer, Hermann. Als Führer der U-boote im Weltkriege, 1914-1918 [As Commander of U-boats in i>World War I]. Leipzig: Koehler & Amelang, 1942.

  ——. Das Unterseeboot. Berlin: E. S. Mittler & Sohn, 1931.

  Baxter, James Phinney 3rd. Scientists Against Time. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950.

  Beach, Edward L. The United States Navy: 200 Years. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1986.

  Beaver, Paul. U-boats in the Atlantic: A Selection of German Wartime Photographs from the Bundesarchiv, Koblenz. (Picture book.) Cambridge, U.K.: Patrick Stephens Limited, 1979. Beesly, Patrick. Room 40: British Naval Intelligence, 1914-1918. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1982.

  ——. Very Special Admiral: The Life of J. H. Godfrey, CB. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1980.

  ——. Very Special Intelligence. London: Hamish, 1977.

  Behrens, C[atherine] B. A. Merchant Shipping and the Demands of War. London: HMSO, 1955. Bekker, Cajus D. [Hans Dieter Berenbrock]. Defeat At Sea or Swastika at Sea [Einzelkhampfer auf i>See]. New York: Ballantine, 1956.

  ——. The German Navy: 1939-45. (Picture book.) Trans. G. Stalling. New York: Dial, 1974.

  ——. Hitler’s Naval War [Verdammte See]. Trans. Frank Ziegler. London: Macdonald & Janes, 1974.

  ——. X-Men. Maidstone: George Mann Ltd., 1973.

  Bennett, Ralph. Ultra in the West. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1979.

  Bird, Keith W. Weimar, the German Naval Officer Corps and the Rise of National Socialism. Amsterdam: B. R. Griiner, 1977.

  Blair, Clay, Jr. Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1975.

  Bloch, Gilbert. Enigma avant Ultra [Enigma Before Ultra]. Paris: Privately printed, 1988. For excerpts, see Articles section.

  Böddeker, Günther. Die Boote im Netz [Caught in the Net]. Bergsch Gladbach: Gustav Lubbe, 1981.

  Böddeker, Günther, and Paul K. Schmidt. Die Gefangenen; Leben und Uberleben [Prisoners: Life and Survival]. Frankfurt: Ull stein, 1980.

  Bonatz, Heinz. Seekrieg im Ather [Naval Radio War]. Herford: E. S. Mittler & Sohn GmbH, 1981.

  Botting, Douglas, et al., eds. The U-boats. The Seafarers Series. Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1979.

  Boutilier, James A., ed. The RCN in Retrospect: 1910-1968. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1982. See papers by Beesly, Douglas and Röhwer, Lund, Milner.

  Boyd, Carl. The Extraordinary Envoy: General Hiroshi Oshima and Diplomacy in the Third Reich,

  1934-1939. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1980.

  ——. Hitler’s Japanese Confidant. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1993.

  Boyd, Carl, and Akihiko Yoshida. The Japanese Submarine Force and World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute. Press, 1995.

  Bradley, Omar N., and Clay Blair. A General’s Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983.

  Bragadin, Marc’ Antonio. The Italian Navy in World War II. Trans. Gale Hoffman. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1957.

  Breemer, Jan. Soviet Submarines. London: Jane’s Information Group, 1989.

  Brennecke, Hans Jochen. Der Fall Laconia: Ein Hohes Lied der U-boot Waffe [The Laconia Case: A Song of Songs in the U-boat Force]. Biberach an der Riss: Koehlers, 1959.

  ——. Haie im Paradies: Der Deutsche U-boot Krieg imAsiens Gewässern 1943-1945 [Sharks in Paradise: The German U-boat War in Asian Waters, 1943-1945]. Preetz/Holstein: Ernst Gerdes, 1961. ——. The Hunters and the Hunted [Jäger-Gejagte: Deutsche U-Boote 1939-1945]. Trans. R. H.

  Stevens. New York: W. W. Norton, 1957. ——; Unser Boot und Wir im Mittelmeer: Die Feindfahrten eines deutschen Unterseebootes in Wort and Bild. [Our Boat and Us in the Mediterranean: The War Patrols of Some German U-boats in Words and Pictures]. (Picture book.) Berlin: Otto von Holten, 1943.

  ——. Die Wende im U-boot Krieg [The Turnabout in the U-Boat War]. Herford: Koehlers, 1984.

  Breyer, Siegfried and Gerhard Koop. The German Navy at War. 2 vols. Vol. 2: U-boats. Trans. Edward Force. West Chester, Pa.:
Schiffer Publishing Limited, 1989.

  Brinkley, David. Washington Goes to War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1988. Brooks, Geoffrey. See Hirschfeld.

  Brown, Anthony Cave. Bodyguard of Lies. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.

  ——. “C”: The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987.

  Brustat-Naval, Fritz and Teddy Suhren. Nasses Eichenlaub [Soaked Oak Leaves]. Herford: Koehlers-Mittler, 1983.

  Bryant, Arthur. Triumph in the West. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959.

  ——. The Turn of the Tide. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957.

  Bryant, Ben. Submarine Commander. London: William Kimber, 1958.

  Buchheim, Lothar-Günther. The Boat [Das Boot]. (Fiction.) Trans. Denver and Helen Lindley. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1975.

  ——.. Jäger im Weltmeer [Hunters on the World’s Oceans]. Preface by Karl Dönitz. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 1943.

  ——. U-Boat War [U-Boot Krieg]. Trans. Gudie Lawaetz. Afterword by Michael Salewski. New York: Bantam Books, 1979.

  ——. Die U-Boot-Faher: Die Boot, die Bestazungen, und ihr Admiral [The Submariners: The Boat, the Crews, and Their Admiral]. Munich: Bertelsmann, 1985.

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  ——. Liberty Ships: The Ugly Ducklings of World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1972.

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  Seas: Death-dealing Phantom Hunt]. Rastatt/Baden: Erich Pabel, 1960.

  ——. U-Boats at War: That’s the Way It Was [So War der U-Boot Krieg]. Trans. L.P.R. Wilson. New York: Ballantine, 1955.

  ——. U-Boot auf Feindfahrt: Bildberichte vom Einsatz im Atlantik [U-boat on Patrol]. Giitersloh: Bertelsmann, 1942.

  Busch, Rainer, and Hans-Joachim Röll. Die deutschen U-boot Kommandanten. Rastatt: Erich Pabel- Arthur Moewig, January 1992.

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  ——. The Underwater War, 1939-1945. Poole-Dorset: Blanford Press, 1982.

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