A new book from Savas and distributed internationally by Greenhill is Silent Hunters: German U-Boat Commanders of World War II The book, edited by Theodore Savas, presents for the first time, in considerable detail, the stories of six U-boat commanders: Engelbert Endrass, who was lost off Gibraltar in late 1941. This candid essay on Endrass was written by fellow submarine ace Erich Topp in the North Atlantic on his 15th war patrol; Karl-Friedrich Merten, who played a crucial role in the war's longest-distance rescue operation and whose impressive accomplishments rank him among the war's top tonnage aces; Ralph Kapitsky, whose suicidal surface-to-air battle in the Caribbean, waged against overwhelming odds, allowed many of his fellow U-boat commanders to escape into the Atlantic; Fritz Guggenberger, whose remarkable career included the sinking of an aircraft carrier, the destruction of his own boat off Brazil, and the organisation of the largest POW escape attempt in American history; Victor Oehrn, Karl Donitz's staff officer, who laboured behind a desk for the glory of others until his opportunity came to command his own boat; Heinz Eck, whose fateful decision on a sultry tropical night in the wastes of the Central Atlantic earned him a date with a British firing squad. Silent Hunters has 29 illustrations and maps. Back to Greenhill Military Book News No. 80 Table of Contents Back to Greenhill Military Book News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 1997 by Greenhill Books This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com