Roger Moorhouse - Wolfpack : Inside Hitler’s U-Boat War
For Allied seamen during the war, the U-Boat was a hidden menace, a faceless killer lurking beneath the waves. Winston Churchill famously remarked that the threat of the German U-Boats was the only thing that had “really frightened” him during World War Two.
However, by the end of the war, U-Boat crews posted the highest per-capita losses of any combat arm during World War Two. Some 30,000 German submariners were killed – over 75% of the total number deployed – the vast majority of whom have no grave except the seabed.
Roger will be in conversation with Oliver Webb-Carter, editor of Aspects of History.
| Date | Thursday 9th October 2025 | |
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| Time | 7:45 PM | |
| Doors Open | 7:15 PM | |
| Venue | High Street Baptist Church | |
Using archival sources, unpublished diaries and existing memoir literature, Wolfpack gives the U-Boatmen back their voice, taking the reader from the heady early days of the war, when U-Boat crews were buoyed with optimism about their cause, through to the challenges of meeting the Allied counterthreat, to the final horror of defeat, when their submarines were captured by the enemy or scuttled in ignominy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Roger Moorhouse is a specialist in modern German and Polish history, particularly the Third Reich and World War Two. He has written a number of books in this capacity, including Killing Hitler (2006), Berlin at War (2010), The Devils’ Alliance (2014) and the critically acclaimed First to Fight (2019), which was awarded the Polish Foreign Ministry History Prize in 2020. Roger’s books have appeared in more than 20 languages.