A Selected Reading List for Submarines: The Silent Service



A Selected Reading List for Submarines: The Silent Service

The following list of books was compiled by the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of the Library of Congress as a companion to the February 2010 release of Experiencing War – highlighting the stories of Navy submariners found in Veterans History Project collections (see ). This reading list provides a starting point for further exploration of this topic. To see the complete bibliographic information for any citation below, click on the LCCN Permalink URL below:



Title: Records Relating to U-boat Warfare, 1939-1945

Publisher: National Archives and Records Administration, 1985, 263 pages



Title: United States Submarine Losses, World War II

Publisher: Naval History Division, 1963, 244 pages



Title: United States Submarine Veterans of World War II: A History of the Veterans of the United States Naval Submarine Fleet

Publisher: Taylor Publishing Company, 1987, v. 2



Author: John Doughty Alden

Title: U.S. Submarine Attacks During World War II: Including Allied Submarine Attacks in the Pacific Theater

Publisher: Naval Institute Press, 1989, 285 pages



Author: Erminio Bagnasco

Title: Submarines of World War II

Publisher: Cassell and Company, 2000, 256 pages



Author: Clay Blair

Title: Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan

Publisher: Naval Institute Press, 2001, 1071 pages



Author: Robert J. Casey

Title: Battle Below: The War of the Submarines

Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1945, 380 pages



Author: Jim Christley

Title: U.S. Submarines 1941-1945

Publisher: Osprey, 2006



Author: James F. DeRose

Title: Unrestricted Warfare: How a New Breed of Officers Led the Submarine Force to Victory in World War II

Publisher: Wiley, 2000, 310 pages



Author: Wilfred Jay Holmes

Title: Undersea Victory: The Influence of Submarine Operations on the War in the Pacific

Publisher: Doubleday, 1966, 505 pages



Author: Edwin Palmer Hoyt

Title: U-boats: A Pictorial History

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1987, 289 pages



Author: David Jones

Title: U.S. Subs Down Under: Brisbane, 1942-1945

Publisher: Naval Institute Press, 2005, 297 pages



Author: Henry Keatts

Title: Field Reference to Sunken U-boats

Publisher: American Merchant Marine Museum Press, 1987, 85 pages



Author: Larry Kimmett

Title: U.S. Submarines in World War II: An Illustrated History

Publisher: Navigator Publishers, 1996, 159 pages



Author: Charles A. Lockwood

Title: Sink 'em All: Submarine Warfare in the Pacific

Publisher: Dutton, 1951, 416 pages



Author: Hughston E. Lowder

Title: The Silent Service: U.S. Submarines in World War II

Publisher: Silent Service Books, 1987, 492 pages



Author: David Miller

Title: U-boats: The Illustrated History of the Raiders of the Deep

Publisher: Brassey's, 2000, 208 pages



Author: Peter Padfield

Title: War Beneath the Sea: Submarine Conflict, 1939-1945

Publisher: John Murray, 1995, 560 pages



Author: Lawrence Peterson

Title: U-boats in the Mediterranean, 1941-1944

Publisher: Naval Institute Press, 2007, 202 pages



Author: Theodore Roscoe

Title: United States Submarine Operations in World War II

Publisher: United States Naval Institute, 1949, 577 pages



Author: Milton J. Shapiro

Title: Undersea Raiders: U.S. Submarines in World War II

Publisher: D. McKay, 1979, 56 pages



Author: Jak P. Mallmann Showell

Title: U-boat Commanders and Crews, 1935-1945

Publisher: Crowood Press, 1998, 144 pages



Author: Sherry Sontag

Title: Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

Publisher: Public Affairs, 1998, 352 pages



Author: Robert Cecil Stern

Title: Battle Beneath the Waves: The U-boat War

Publisher: Arms and Armour, 1999, 224 pages



Author: Robert Cecil Stern

Title: U.S. Subs in Action

Publisher: Squadron/Signal Publications, 1979, 45 pages



Editor: Paul W. Warner

Title: An Anthology of U.S. Submarine Stories: As Told by the World War II Men of the U.S. Submarine Service

Publisher: P.W. Wittmer, 2005, 570 pages



Author: Paul W. Wittmer

Title: United States Submarine Men Lost During World War II

Publisher: P.W. Wittmer Publications, 2006, 2 volumes

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