About the Book

Killing Shore: The True Story of Hitler’s U-boats Off the New Jersey Coast was researched and written over three years beginning in January 2021. It tells the story of Nazi Germany’s submarine campaign off North America, with a focus on events near New Jersey.

Parts I and III explain how and why the U-boats came to the United States and how they were ultimately defeated. Part II (the main story) provides a seafarer’s-eye perspective of combat incidents that occurred along the Jersey Shore. This is a work of nonfiction. All characters are real people, and no facts have been changed insofar as they are known.

Primary sources—patrol logs, POW interrogation records, etc—were utilized to reconstruct action sequences in detail. The author was also assisted by descendants of the book’s characters, subject matter experts, and a Merchant Marine combat veteran of World War II. Portrayals of combat and survival are interwoven with the cultural, military, economic, and technological dimensions of the Atlantic campaign.

Killing Shore is currently available in e-book and hardcover; the audiobook will be released on 20 August 2024.