War Beneath the Sea Quotes

“Raeder and Dönitz had objected on the practical grounds that such an order would undermine U-boat morale: officers and men would react against shooting defenceless people in the water and would assume that the enemy would mete out the same treatment to them in reprisal if the positions were reversed.”
― Peter Padfield, War Beneath The Sea

“On moral and international legal grounds it would be difficult to differentiate these discussions about annihilating shipwrecked survivors from those mentioned earlier between Churchill, his advisers and the Air Staff on area-bombing to kill, de-house and break the morale of the German working-class population – except perhaps that the British offensive was likely to affect women and children more directly, and was in the event carried out.”
― Peter Padfield, War Beneath The Sea

“from 4,000 yards.4 He exceeded”
― Peter Padfield, War Beneath The Sea