HITLER AND His ADMIRALS (275 pp.)—Anthony K. Martienssen—Dutton ($4). At 10 p.m. on Oct. 12, 1939, the submarine U-47, commanded by Lieut. Gunther Prien, surfaced off the Orkneys. Prien noted in the ...

I have often wondered why the Germans did not make greater efforts to reduce our strength in capital ships by destroyer or submarine attacks on our bases in those early days. They possessed, in ...

Today at Scapa Flow in the Scottish Orkney Islands, hundreds attended a ceremony by throwing wreaths into the waters where 75 years ago a German U-Boat, commanded by the famed Lieutenant Commander ...