The Enemy Below Author:D. A. Rayner DUEL AT SEA — From the moment the radar indicated a German sub, the captain of the destroyer Hecate knew he would achieve his life’s ambition -- a duel to the death in deserted waters between his ship and an enemy submarine. — Below the choppy sea sped the U-121 commanded by Kapitan von Stolberg, an effic... more »ient, brutal sailor who also welcomed a fight to the finish -- but for a different reason. His submarine was entrusted with a mission that could prove catastrophic to the Allied war effort. Nothing -- least of all a British destroyer -- must stand in his way.
Plotting his strategy like a deadly game of chess, the destroyer captain doggedly tailed the elusive sub. Depth charge answered torpedo, cannon matched gun and finally man faced man in a climactic battle for supremacy at sea.« less