You can't beat a good book
 

I've seen some books recommended in this forum and I have just ordered some of them, including:

• U.S. Submarines Through 1945
• Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanalm Midway - The Great Naval Battles as Seen Through Japanese Eyes
• Imperial Japanese Navy Submarines 1941-45
• Thunder Below
• Iron Coffins: A U-boat Commander's War, 1939-45
• War in the Boats: My WWII Submarine Battles (Memories of War)
• Silent Running: My Years on a World War II Attack Submarine

Is there anything else anyone would recommend?

Shadow Divers http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Divers-.../dp/0375508589

Torpedo Junction
http://www.amazon.com/Torpedo-Juncti...7147805&sr=1-1

Shattered Sword
http://www.amazon.com/Shattered-Swor...7147848&sr=1-1

I enjoyed The Submarine: A History by Tom Parrish (2004). It's a good attempt (not perfect) at providing a history of submarines, from The Turtle in 1776, to modern nukes - very readable and IMO well researched.

Thunder Below! by Fluckey

http://www.amazon.com/Thunder-Below-...7150967&sr=8-1

Yeah, that one comes up a lot, it's one of the ones I have already ordered. Good suggestion :D .

Interestingly "Thunder Below" was optioned by Steven Spielberg about six years ago and a screenplay was written, hopefully one day it will be a film.


To Quote Wikipedia...
"Salerno's first feature film screenplay was the fact-based World War II submarine thriller Thunder Below for producer-director Steven Spielberg and his newly formed Dreamworks Pictures."

Interesting, though I'd put my faith in hollywood screwing it up somehow.

I have just started reading the book, Silent Running. In the beginning he highlights that their biggest fear was enemy submarines!

Does SH4 have enemy Subs?

Oh, you can count on that! Expect subs doing barrel rolls and pulling G's to evade dstroyers.

The sub movie "we" would like is not going to sell many tickets or DVD's!

Thunder Below
 

Thanks for a most interesting post.

I have just ordered Thunder Below from abebooks.co.uk - and cheaper than Amazon.

Happy barrel rolls:damn:

Geoff

U-BOAT ACE The Story of Wolgang Luth by Jordan Vause

Don't forget Silent Victory by Clay Blair. Excellent for finding out about any patrol made during the war in the Pacific.

WB.

Submarine! by Ned Beach

I'm currently reading 'Iron Coffins' what a fantastic read!!!!! I highly recommend it.:up:

Both of O'Kanes books are worth a read:
Clear The Bridge-The War Patrols of USS Tang
Wahoo-The War Partols of the USS Wahoo
For a more technical history:
The Fleet Submarine in the US Navy- A Design and Construction History by Commander John Alden
Other really good reads include:
War in the Boats by Ruhe
Shinano by Enright
Batfish by Lowder and Scott
Gallant Lady by Henry and Keith
Can't really go wrong with any of them.

Respectfully Submitted;
CDR Resser