Illustrated with vivid artworks, Submarines of World War II: 1939-45 is an essential reference guide for modelers and naval warfare enthusiasts. Find out about German U-boat U-47's daring raid on the British naval base at Scapa Flow in October 1939, where it sank the battleship Royal Oak; marvel at the power of the German U-boat Wolf Packs, who sunk 32 Allied ships from Convoy SC-7 in just two days in 1940; and discover how U-boat U-405 was destroyed by a combination of small arms fire and ramming by American destroyer USS Borie in one of the most dramatic surface encounters of the war.
