My recommendation:
Iron Coffins - by Herbert A. Werner
Werner is one of the few U-boat captains to survive a lengthy career. He started as ensign and worked up to U-boat commander.
His descriptions of life on the boats, as well as life in-between patrols are particularly vivid. And his account of the slow disintegration of German society during the course of war is especially poignant.
This is just a great book, period – not merely a good book about u-boats.
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"I wish to have no Connection with any Ship that does not Sail fast for I intend to go in harm's way." - Captain John Paul Jones, 1778
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