U-boat histories can lean toward uncritical celebration of the boats and commanders or blanket condemnation of the entire subject. The criticism here is that dramatic extremes make books easier to sell while obscuring the complexity of the history. Wolfpack is recommended for avoiding those habits. The preferred approach allows for humane acts even within the worst periods of human behaviour, without making the whole history admirable.
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Wolfpack avoids U-boat mythology
Roger Moorhouse's Wolfpack is praised for presenting the U-boat war without turning it into either triumphalist legend or one-dimensional condemnation.