Autobiographical books about the Atlantic war for WWII from the allied perspective
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Although strictly speaking fiction, how about "The Cruel Sea"? A novel based on the author's WW2 experience of Atlantic convoy escort duty.
From Wikipedia, The Cruel Sea
Nicholas Monsarrat - The Cruel Sea
Country: UK & US
Language: English Genre Second World War Novel Publisher Cassell & Co, London Knopf, New York Publication date 1951 Pages 416 (Cassell) 509 (Knopf)
The Cruel Sea is a 1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat. It follows the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War. It contains seven chapters, each describing a year during the war.
The novel, based on the author's experience of serving in corvettes in the North Atlantic in the Second World War, gives a matter-of-fact but moving portrayal of ordinary men learning to fight and survive in a violent, exhausting battle against the elements and a ruthless enemy.
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I think you're looking for a book about the Allied side of the Battle Of The Atlantic, but if you're interested in WWII submarines I highly recommend One Of Our Submarines by Edward Young.
It's the autobiographical account of an RNVR officer from joining the submarine service through being a British submarine captain in the Pacific. He even escapes a sinking submarine. It's a technically accurate and very well written book. It benefits greatly from Young having been a publisher before the war.
The book makes you very much appreciate how complicated and delicate WWII submarines were. His experiences will resonate with what other submarine captains experienced everywhere in the war.
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A Bloody War by Lieutenant Hal Lawrence.
I read this in the 1980's in paperback form. It is a narrative by a Canadian officer serving in the Royal Navy in various anti-submarine operations in the Atlantic, to include the capture of a German submarine. It is very well written, and describes in good detail the challenges of convoy operations and the difficulties of anti submarine warfare.
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