Submarine Attack #48

Tom Conroy has spent three grueling patrols aboard the USS Tarfish, haunted by the loss of his brother Edward aboard another submarine and increasingly unable to cope with the claustrophobia of submarine duty—but he's hidden his fears to honor his brother's memory. When a Japanese destroyer traps Tarfish in shallow water with nowhere to run, Conroy's breaking point becomes the moment that defines his character and his service. A story about courage worn on the inside, where sometimes the hardest battle is the one you fight against yourself.

When a U.S. satellite crashes onto the Arctic ice, both American and Soviet forces race to recover its instrument package in a tense polar standoff. The U.S.S. Sea Leopard pushes through treacherous waters while Communist paratroopers scramble across the frozen surface, and Lt. Andy Tolar leads his men in a desperate firefight to claim the prize before the enemy does. In the frozen wilderness, honor takes on a new meaning as two superpowers clash in the world's coldest battlefield.

As World War II neared its end, German U-boats introduced a game-changing innovation: the snorkel, a simple exhaust and intake pipe that allowed submarines to run their main engines while submerged—giving them unprecedented underwater speed and endurance. This non-fiction account explores how the snorkel gave German submariners a crucial tactical advantage, and how Allied detection methods ultimately proved sufficient to counter the threat.

When word reaches a submarine crew that Popo, a wounded Filipino guerrilla leader, needs extraction from a Japanese-occupied village on Mindanao, they slip ashore under cover of darkness—only to discover the enemy is already lying in wait. As Japanese forces close in around the village and tension mounts, Captain Ahern and Dr. Allen must navigate a desperate rescue under impossible odds.

A U-boat captain and a Navy officer who clashed years before at a Washington dance find themselves locked in a deadly submarine duel during World War II. When Lt. Cmdr. Bob Barlick's destroyer escort corners Kapitan Hans von Brumm's U-235, old enmities resurface beneath the waves—but fate has one more cruel twist in store for these enemies of old.