Before becoming too mired in the standard mythology of the U-Boats check out Michael Hadley Count Not the Dead: The Popular Image of the German Submarine and Clay Blair's seminal Hitler's U-Boat War in two volumes, The Hunters and The Hunted.
Use some caution with U-Boats at War, Harald Busch was a war correspondent like Buchheim of Das Boot fame and his book was the first German work on the subject to appear after WW2 and the first to de-Nazify the U-Boot Waffe. It certainly does contain Wolfgang Luth's essay Problems of Leadership but it has been cleaned up of all the political rhetoric found in the original and Luth, percieved as a hardcore Nazi gets no mention by name. It is valuable but should be looked at in the context of the era when it was written and the fact that the author had no access to official primary sources which were still in the hand of the Allied Occupation forces.
Other titles of interest might include:
The Golden Horseshoe: Terrance Robertson on Otto Kretschmer;
U-Boat Ace, The Story of Wolfgang Luth: Jordan Vause;
Lone Wolf, The Life and Death of U-Boat Ace Werner Henke: Timothy Mulligan;
The Laconia Affair: Leonce Peillard; and
From the other side of the hill, don't forget Patrick Beasley's popular but flawed Very Special Intelligence about Allied code-breaking and the Ultra Secret that ultimately doomed the U-Boats to failure.
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