U-859

Stealthy and deadly, the searing blast of a U-boat's torpedo was often followed by hours of creeping terror as the hunter became the hunted, and Allied anti-submarine forces rained down tons of high explosives, testing the skill and endurance of everyone aboard. Written by a survivor of the true events, U-859 is a novel, but it is also an eye-witness account of what it was like to be on the receiving end of Allied explosives, and the mind-numbing terror of being trapped in the pitch darkness of a sunken submarine. KAPITANLEUTNANT John Henning was piped ashore from his boat.