U-Boat Killer: Fighting the U-Boats in the Battle of the Atlantic
About this audiobook
A classic memoir from the Battle of the Atlantic
Donald Macintyre’s U-Boat Killer is a unique account of the Battle of the Atlantic from the perspective of a British destroyer captain who fought through this brutal campaign. Few other books transport the reader to the deck of a convoy escort in the cold, stormy seas of the Atlantic Ocean and bring to life the terrifying conflict between the Royal Navy and the U-boats.
Over the course of four unrelenting years, Captain Macintyre escaped the clutches of the German “wolf packs” and brought dozens of convoys to safety. Credited with destroying seven U-boats, Macintyre was a calculated master of combating his underwater foes and, during one savage night, captured Germany’s greatest U-boat commander, Otto Kretschmer, and sank another famous ace.
His memoir, U-Boat Killer, charts the course of the Atlantic war and explores how both Allied and Axis strategies developed until the convoys were able to turn the tide of the war in 1943.
This book should be essential reading for all fascinated by the longest campaign of World War Two and for those who wish to learn more about the lives of the men who kept the war against the Nazis going even through the Allies’ darkest moments.
About the author
Donald Macintyre joined the British Royal Navy in the 1920s, and, having qualified as a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm, flew fighter aircraft from the carriers HMS Hermes on the China station and HMS Courageous in home waters. After a serious illness he was passed fully fit for sea service again and obtained command of HMS Kingfisher, a new type of anti-submarine ship, when he first acquired his overriding interest in submarine hunting. Between 1940 and 1944 when he was transferred to a shore posting, he was among the most successful submarine hunters in any Allied navy, transforming the Battle of the Atlantic by his successes against the U-boat menace. After the war ended he wrote numerous books, among them U-Boat Killer, The Battle of the Atlantic, and The Naval War Against Hitler.
Steven Crossley, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, has built a career on both sides of the Atlantic as an actor and audiobook narrator, for which he has won more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and been a nominee for the prestigious Audie Award. He is a member of the internationally renowned theater company Complicite and has appeared in numerous theater, television, film, and radio dramas.
