Review: Great read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 2, 2014
“War Beneath the Sea” by Peter Padfield is a comprehensive collection of the submarine activities on all sides of WWII.  It is full of first hand reports of survivors, speculation on many of those lost and analysis of the top submarine commands of Great Britain, Germany, the US, and Japan.  It shows how entrenched policy makers ignored reports from the front about defects in material and tactics, thus lengthening the war.  As an old Navy man I am reminded of what we used to say:  The Navy was conceived by genius, but run by morons.  I highly recommend this book for anybody interested in naval history.