Military History Club Podcast · Saul David

Roger Moorhouse on 'Wolfpack'

·32 min·3 clips
U-boat crews lived in an unholy stink of body odor, mold, vomit, and diesel that aftershave couldn't cover.
Historian Roger Morehouse discusses his new book 'Wolfpack: Inside Hitler's U-Boat War' with host Saul David, examining German submarine warfare from research methods to strategic impact. The conversation covers U-boat living conditions, the accuracy of Das Boot, technological developments, and why Churchill may have overstated the U-boat threat.

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A grounded conversation about U-boat conduct, Atlantic strategy, and the wartime stories that endure.

Roger Morehouse's Wolfpack frames the U-boat war as a test of combat rules as much as a campaign meant to choke Britain out of the war. The conversation draws strength from the research behind the book, especially Morehouse's account of working from raw material supplied by a…

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Want to hear when U-boat crews still tried to play by the rules, and when Germany's Atlantic window began to close?

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