Hitler's Grey Wolves

U-Boats in the Indian Ocean

Lawrence Paterson

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Frontline
01 February 2017

History; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Second World War; Theory of warfare & military science; Naval forces & warfare

Very little has been written about the U-boat war in the Indian Ocean, where almost forty German submarines were assigned to operate from the Malaysian port of Georgetown alongside troops of the occupying Imperial Japanese forces. From that base they sailed across the vast Indian Ocean and into the Pacific.

Success in this theatre of war could very possibly have swung the tide of battle in North Africa in favour of Rommel, and the joint operations with the Japanese allowed the Germans to penetrate the Pacific Ocean for the first time, attacking shipping off the Australian coast and hunting off New Zealand. Plans were even made to attack US supply lines.

Hitler's Grey Wolves is the story of this forgotten campaign, bringing it vividly to life through Lawrence Paterson's incisive analysis, eyewitness testimony and an extensive collection of contemporary photographs.

By: Lawrence Paterson
Imprint: Frontline
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781473882737
ISBN 10: 1473882737
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 February 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Lawrence Paterson was born in New Zealand. At an early age he became an avid scuba diver and developed a deep interest in the Kriegsmarine. Combining the two in 1998 he moved to France to live close to the Brest U-boat bunkers. Now living in the UK, he is a member of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum's Archive Group, specialising in U-boat and Kriegsmarine research, and has undertaken consultancy work for the BBC and the Emden Naval History Collection at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He is the author of Donitz's Last Gamble, U-Boat War Patrol, First U-Boat Flotilla and Second U-Boat Flotilla.