On the morning of the 14th of April 1945, U-1206, one of the last German U-boats to be commissioned, was cruising at a depth of 200 feet, just off the coast of Scotland, about eight to ten miles from ...

In World War I, writes Chicoan and naval historian David Bruhn, “German U-boats sank over 5,200 vessels and came dangerously close to choking off Britain’s critical supply of food in the spring of ...