About the Author

KARL DOENITZ was commissioned into the Imperial German Navy in 1910. He became convinced of the war-winning potential of U-boats and conducted a battle for the Atlantic that the Allies only just won. He succeeded Grand Admiral Raeder as commander-in-chief of the navy.

Reviews

His place in the history books has been determined by his prosecution of the Battle of the Atlantic, and it is untimately a testament to the quality of his writing that it is almost impossible not to sympathise with his fustrations, even when we are so painfully aware of the malevolent cause he fought for. - Military History Monthly