U-boats of the Kaiser's Navy

As was the case in World War II, one of the greatest threats to Britain during World War I was the German U-boat menace. This book traces the development of the U-boat threat from the Brandtaucher, designed by Wilhelm Bauer, the father of the German submarine arm, in 1850, through to the commissioning of Germany''s first U-boat to go into service, the U-1, in 1906. It then covers the main types of...