Bayer, J.F. (2000) The Omega Deception. Broadman & Holman. [U-boats and Doenitz feature in this tense thriller.] Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
Buchheim, L-G. (1999) The Boat (Das Boot). Cassell Military. [Re-issue of the book behind the film]. Amazon.co.uk
Collins, M.A. (2000) U-571. Avon Books. [Novel tie-in to film of the same name.] Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
Faulks, S. (1994) Birdsong. Vintage. [Not about the Battle of the Atlantic, but a highly recommended novel about the the First World War. Beg, borrow or steal a copy, or buy it from here! ] Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. Audio versions are also available - Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
Faulks, S. (Ed.) (1998) The Vintage Book of War Stories. Vintage. [Includes extracts from books about the war at sea.] Amazon.co.uk
Forester, C.S. (1998) The Good Shepherd. G.K. Hall/Naval Institute Press. Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. An audio version is also available from Amazon.com
Gaines, C.P. & Miles, E.E. (2001) Last Convoy to Europe. iUniverse.com. Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
Golding, W. (1997) Pincher Martin. Faber. [In this 1956 novel by William Golding (author of Lord of the Flies & Nobel Prize for Literature winner), Christopher Hadley Martin, temporary Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, finds himself at the wrong end of a U-boat attack. How he reacts in his perilous situation, first in danger of drowning, then stranded on a tiny outcrop of rock in the North Atlantic, is explored by Golding. An extraordinary book that ends with a twist.] Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. Audiobook versions are also available at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
Griffin, G. (1999) An Operational Necessity. Harvill Pr. [When a German U-Boat captain orders the machine gunning of the survivors of a torpedoed freighter, he does so to safeguard his own ship and crew. There follows a relentless hunt for the submarine and finally a post-war military tribunal, in which the captain faces the freighter's only survivor. A fine, long neglected novel.] Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
Hanley, J. (1998) The Last Voyage: And Other Stories . Harvill Press. Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
Hanley, J. (1999) The Ocean. Harvill Press. Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
Harris, R. (1996) Enigma. Arrow. [Best-selling novel about the U-boat codebreakers based at Bletchley Park in England]. Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. Audiobook versions are also stocked by Amazon.com (narrated by Alan Howard), Amazon.co.uk (unabridged version narrated by Stephen Thorne) and Amazon.co.uk (abridged version).
de Hartog, J. (1988) The Captain. Nautical & Aviation Pub Co. [Fictionalized account of Convoy PQ17.] Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
Higgins, J. (1994) Thunder Point. Berkley Pub Group. [A u-boat, sunk in the deepest waters of the Caribbean, has remained hidden for almost 50 years. But the discovery of the secrets it holds could bring down the British Government. The race to find the sealed container, to use it or destroy it, is fiercely contested by many interested parties. Taut novel by author of The Eagle has Landed.] Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. Amazon.co.uk also stock two audiobooks of this novel, one complete and unabridged (narrated by Christian Rodska) and one abridged (narrated by Roger Moore).
Kinrade, K. (2000) Rockets of the Reich: A WWII Action Novel. Bainbridge Books. Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
Libbey, K. (2001) Vantage Points: A Novel of Men and Women in World War II. iUniverse.com. Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
McDaniel, J.T. (2001) With Honour in Battle. Writers Club Press. Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
MacLean, A. (1985) H.M.S. Ulysses. HarperCollins. [Famous novel about North Atlantic convoys.] Audio versions are available through Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
Monsarrat, N. (1956) The Cruel Sea. Burford/Penguin. [Classic novel about the U-boat hunting exploits of the corvette, HMS Compass Rose]. Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. Amazon.co.uk also supply a BBC audio version.
Monsarrat, N. (2000) Three Corvettes. Cassell. [Reprint of Monsarrat's account of convoy life and action.] Amazon.co.uk
Pope, D. (2001) Convoy. House of Stratus. [Reissue of Pope's novel.] Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
Poyer, D.C. (1992) Hatteras Blue. St Martins. [Novel in which the reappearance of three crewmen off of Hatteras Island forty years after their U-boat went down precipitates a plan by the Nazis to corner the South American drug market.] Amazon.com
Stephenson, N. (1999) Cryptonomicon. Avon Books. [Best-selling novel which recounts "the tale of a World War II code breaker whose descendants end up trying to track down the secrets of the Third Reich's cryptographers--secrets that may liberate or ruin the cybertech world of the present day".] Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. An audio version is also available from Amazon.com
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Clayton Meadows, D. (2005) Of Ice and Steel. 
