In 1917 Britain and her allies were losing hundreds of ships every month to German U-boats ... This would not have made a difference to a WW1 U-boat commander hunting slow merchant ships.

Led by “eager and aggressive” young lieutenants, U-boat crews operated under the German tradition of Auftragstaktik, “which allowed for great flexibility in accomplishing a mission ...

The Treaty of Versailles blocked the German Navy from having submarines and limited the number of officers to 1,500. One of those officers was U-boat skipper Karl Dönitz. He was assigned as ...

The food aboard a German U-boat could get really monotonous, especially after the first ten days or so, when all of the best and freshest ingredients would have gone bad. This simple soup uses ...

The weapon would be the submarine, U-boats. On a desolate mud bank in the salt marshes of Kent lies the metal carcass of a First World War German U-boat. British ships were blockading German ports ...