Duel in the Deep: The Hunters, the Hunted, and a High Seas Fight to the Finish

A World War II naval history of the aging destroyer Borie’s desperate Halloween Eve battle with a German U-boat.

In Autumn 1943 the Battle of the Atlantic, World War II’s longest seagoing campaign, reached a new crescendo. Anti-submarine aircraft and ships using new tactics, technologies, and weaponry dominated a seascape where German U-boats once ruled supreme. But then unexpectedly, in eerie, mid-ocean darkness, an elemental hull-to-deck, sailor-to-submariner duel erupted.

On Halloween Eve,...