About the Author

Lawrence Paterson was born in New Zealand. At an early age he became an avid scuba diver and developed a deep interest in the Kriegsmarine. Combining the two in 1998 he moved to France to live close to the Brest U-boat bunkers. Now living in the UK, he is a member of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum's Archive Group, specialising in U-boat and Kriegsmarine research, and has undertaken consultancy work for the BBC and the Emden Naval History Collection at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He is the author of Donitz's Last Gamble, U-Boat War Patrol, First U-Boat Flotilla and Second U-Boat Flotilla.