The U-Boat Hunters: The Royal Canadian Navy and the Offensive Against Germany's Submarines

by Marc Milner

The Royal Canadian Navy is best known for its role in the defence of convoys against attacks by U-boats, particularly those in the mid-Atlantic from 1941 to 1943. Marc Milner's 1985 book, North Atlantic The Royal Canadian Navy and the Battle for the Convoys, was the first scholarly analysis of those crucial defensive operations. The U-Boat Hunters takes up the story for the last two years of the war, when the measurement of operational effectiveness at sea shifted from success in defending convoys to the ability to hunt down and sink U-boats.
The U-Boat Hunters, which completes Milner's analysis of the RCN's battle with Germany's submarines, is a pioneering study of the final years of the Atlantic war and a landmark work in both Canadian and modern naval history.

326 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[Matt · Rating 4 out of 5]

U-Boat Hunters is an excellent read and a follow up to Milner's North Atlantic Run: The Royal Canadian Navy and the Battle for the Convoys. It was engrossing to see the mistakes that the Canadian Navy made and how Canada's shipbuilding for a while supplied both England and in some small measure the US Navy. Milner was very good at addressing how the CAnadian Navy learned from both the Royal Navy and the US Navy. It was an engrossing book and I can't wait to read more of Dr. Milner's work.