Cover of His Majesty's U-boat

His Majesty's U-boat

February 1943. As the balance of the war slowly shifts in Britain's favour, Lieutenant-Commander Steven Marshall brings his battle-scarred submarine into home port. Captain and crew are exhausted after fourteen months' continuous service, but for most there can be no thought of leave. If the enemy collapse in North Africa is to be exploited, every experienced man will be needed. Marshall must return to the Mediterranean, but this time to a very different kind of war. For his new command is secret and extremely hazardous - a captured German U-boat...

Genre
war and militaryhistorical fiction
Audience
adult

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked His Majesty's U-boat? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked His Majesty's U-boat. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. The Good Shepherd Shares historical fiction, naval fiction, fiction
  2. Storm Force to Narvik: The Nicholas Everard World War II Saga Shares historical fiction, military, war
  3. Onslaught: The War with China--the Opening Battle Shares naval fiction, military, fiction
  4. Ghosts of Bungo Suido (World War 2 Navy) Shares military, historical fiction, war

“People who read His Majesty's U-boat tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Rising Sun
  2. Goshawk Squadron

“If you want more of the same (war and military), start with these.”

  1. The Big War
  2. The Heart You Carry Home
  3. Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried
  4. The Gypsy Tribe

“If it was the historical fiction that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The Baltic Gambit
  2. The Bomb Vessel
  3. Troubled Waters
  4. Dead Eagles

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Das Boot
  2. One of Our Submarines
  3. Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea
  4. A Sailor of Austria: In Which, Without Really Intending to, Otto Prohaska Becomes Official War Hero No. 27 of the Habsburg Empire