Hello folks,
I received a new U-boat book recently and would like to tell you my thoughts on it.
Many of you will be familiar with U-Boot im Focus, a series of eight magazines focussing on U-boat types, operations and personnel. The photographic content within these magazines is always of the highest quality, featuring previously unpublished photos of particular interest to the serious U-boat enthusiast. The captions, in German and English, provide a wealth of useful information. Whether a serious student of the Kriegsmarine U-boat, or a novitiate, the reader can learn a great deal from these eight magazines.
A few months ago I learned that the team (Lufftfahrtverlag Start) behind the U-Boot im Focus series were working on a book covering the German U-boat Tankers. Given their past work (and the Luftwaffe im Focus series as well) this book had the potential to be a serious study of these tankers. The book has now been released as Suppliers of the Grey Wolves: The Story of the German Submarine Tankers 1941-1944 by Axel Urbanke. It can be ordered at