The Sea Wolves; Germany's Dreaded U-Boats of WWII

New York: Avon Books, 1987. First Avon Printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. Good. [6], 186 pages. Illustrations (16 pages of action photographs). Cover has some wear and soiling. Some page discoloration. Edwin Palmer Hoyt (August 5, 1923 - July 29, 2005) was an American writer who specialized in military history. Until 1958, Hoyt worked in news media, after which he produced non-fiction works. Hoyt served with the Office of War Information during World War II, from 1943 to 1945. In 1945 and 1946, he served as a foreign correspondent for The Denver Post and the United Press, reporting from locations in China, Thailand, Burma, India, the Middle East, Europe, North Africa, and Korea. In the 40 years since his first publication in 1960, he produced nearly 200 published works. While Hoyt wrote about 20 novels (many published under the pseudonyms Christopher Martin and Cabot L. Forbes), the vast majority of his works are biographies and other forms of non-fiction, with a heavy emphasis on World War II military history. About two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, America was made vividly aware of its enemy in the Atlantic. With just a handful of U-Boats, the Germans wee able to mount a lethal offensive against shipping off the American coast and in the Caribbean. By the end of 1942, more than 1,000 Allied ships had been lost to the dreaded attacks of Hitler's small but deadly U-Boat patrol. Here, from the naval historian renowned for his War in the Central Pacific series, is the gripping story of Germany's U-Boats in the Atlantic and the war the Allies fought to defend their supply convoys from North America to the beleaguered British.