I have to recommend the Run Silent Run Deep trilogy. Although this is fiction it was written by Edward Beach, a WWI sub skipper and eventual skipper of the Triton nuclear boat which circumnavigated the world submerged the entire way.
The thing about Run Silent Run Deep is that it is goes deeply into submarine tactics. Where other non-fiction and scholarly works tell you what happened, RSRD tells you HOW it happened and what to think about it. It teaches you to do the mental calculations in your head, how to set up a proper attack, discussions about fine points of how to fight a submarine. It is time well-spent and you will be sorry to come to the end of the third book.
Then there's my submarine Bible, Eugene Fluckey's Thunder Below! Just about EVERYTHING about the way I fight a sub in SH4 is based on his methods. He does a fabulous job of explaining how he broke the mold, why, and what results to expect. His name rhymes with "ducky," by the way and you can separate those who knew him from those who don't by how they (mis)pronounce Fluckey's name. His nickname "Lucky Fluckey" should be a clue however.
I have a bunch of great books at home that you could spend altogether too much time locating and reading. I'll post some of them later today.
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