Ency. of U-boats, The: from 1904 to the Present Eberhard Moller
The remarkable history of the German U-Boat Traces its development through the major conflicts of the 20th century Fully illustrated throughout On the eve of World War I, the art of submarine warfare was barely a dozen years old; no nation had submarine-qualified officers serving at the senior staff level and no nation had developed any method for detecting submarines, or attacking them if found. Ancient prejudice against submarines remained: they did not fit in the classic