Recommended reading

[Capt. Morgan]

For the U-Boat side of things...

U-Boats at War by Harald Busch. Out of print, but not hard to find. Contains a concise history of the U-Boat war, mixed with detailed stories of many notable patrols (Prein's Scapa raid, a Q-ship encounter, Erich Topp's patrol in U57 - a type II, etc.) Also has Wolfgang Luth's lecture Command of Men In a U-Boat. An amazing book.


Sharks and Little Fish . Since you're reading Das Boot, you might like the contrast that this book provides. It's also fiction, but it presents a far less romantic view of U-Boat life and operations.

During the war Buchheim was a professional propagandist whereas Ott was a submariner - a fact which I think accounts best for the difference in tone of these two books.

and this...

The Submarine: A History by Thomas Parrish. Title says it all. A very readable history of the submersible warship and the effect it had on naval warfare