U-Boat

The influence of the First World War was strong on H. P. Lovecraft, for in his youth he was an ardent Anglophile and remained almost fanatically so long after the end of that conflict....

Operation Barbarossa gave the Soviets common cause with the British, and subsequently the Americans. Getting supplies to the Soviets to help them resist the Germans became a strategic imperative, and Iran’s geography brought it to the front and center in the strategic supply effort....

January, 1942 - U-112 lurks off the east coast of the United States, planning to wreak havoc on US shipping....

The story you are about to hear has its beginning during World War II when a ship, loaded with supplies for the war effort, is waiting for the US Navy to grant permission to leave New York....

It’s early 1942 and America is unprepared for the war it has declared on Japan and Germany. The enemy, however, is not… Soon after President ...

Submarine Warfare in World War I: The History and Legacy of the German U-boats and Allied Efforts to Counter Them analyzes the underwater fighting. You will learn about submarine warfare in World War I like never before....

On the morning of November 9, 1942, the Dunedin Star, a 13,000-ton refrigerated cargo ship, was tugged off her moorings, and nudged into the mouth of the Mersey River....

"The Land That Time Forgot" is a fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The novel is set in World War I and opens with a thermos off the coast of Greenland...

A chilling mist greets Doug Tillman as he boards a troopship, the S.S. Leopoldville, in the early morning hours of Christmas Eve, 1944, headed for ...

The perils of the Atlantic were only equalled by the convoys on the run to northern Russia....

On the outer banks of the Carolinas in 1941, fishermen and a few lonely sailors constitute the human population. Dominating the rough yet beautiful landscape is the majestic Killakeet Lighthouse, run for generations by the Thurlow family....

It’s mid-September 1942. A German U-boat, U-156, sinks a converted British ocean liner, HMT Laconia, with just two torpedoes. The captain of the sub is horrified to discover that the troop transport was carrying 1,800 Italian POWs, along with British and Polish passengers....

Naval combat underwent a significant metamorphosis during World War II. Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan launched some of the most powerful battleships ever to sail the world's oceans....

Hitler's U-boats rule the North Atlantic and threaten to eliminate the Allied supply lines through meticulously coordinated attacks using Germany's secret weapon: the Enigma....

In War Stories III: The Heroes Who Defeated Hitler, Marine combat veteran Lt. Colonel Oliver North gives you a chance to revisit the front lines with infantrymen slugging their way up the boot of Italy....

Sub-Lieutenant Adams of the Royal Navy would like nothing better than to have time off to spend with his wife and children. But the capture of a U-...

It’s 1943 on the American home front, and Ella’s pent-up, common-law husband finally decides to leave their farm and enlist. Ella must either depart their seafaring town in coastal Delaware to pursue other dreams inland or try to save their farm....

Having survived the sinking of his first ship, Ensign Ash Miller USNR is promoted and assigned to command one of the sleek new additions to "the splinter fleet", a 110-foot wooden submarine chaser armed with only understrength guns and depth charges....