The Hunter Hunted: Submarine versus Submarine Encounters from World War I to the Present

by Estate of Robert Stern

Today the submarine itself is regarded as the most potent anti-submarine weapon, but it was not always so. This book traces the growing effectiveness of the submarine as a hunter of its own kind, using a carefully selected series of dramatic incidents, from the earliest days to some nuclear "near misses" during the Cold War.

Here are some fifteen dramatic accounts, including the sinking in 1915 of Germany's U-7 by U-22; the first Cold War sinking of a Spanish Republican submarine by the German U-34 in 1936; the only U.S. submarine lost to an enemy submarine the USS Corvina, sunk by the Japanese I-176 in 1943; and the last German and Japanese submarines sunk in World War II--both taken down by U.S. submarines.

208 pages, Hardcover

First published February 15, 2007

Reviews

[Kevin Barnes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Having served on US Submarines from the early 80's through the 90's this subject was always with me when I went to sea. Mr. stern did a great job of telling the stories as much as he could without all the politics of a war getting involved. What I was a bit surprised to learn was the quickness of most encounters. 15 minutes seem to be the average before one boat is gone. But the worst was the cases of "Fratricide". To lose a boat by your own side has to be the worst thing for the crew of the "winning side". I can not and really do not want to imagine what that is like. God seep to those men.