The Greatest Submarine Stories Ever Told : Dive! Dive! Fourteen Unforgettable Stories from the Deep
by Lamar Underwood
    For decades, readers and filmgoers alike have found the drama of submarine stories to be compelling and irresistible: men locked in steel cocoons, fighting the sea, the enemy, even themselves. There are sea chases, submarine wolf packs stalking their prey, stunning and numbing depth-charge attacks, survival epics, miraculous rescues, and journeys of exploration. Submarine tales inherently are filled with action, adventure, and vivid portraits of extraordinary skill and courage in the face of agonizing death beneath the waves.

The Hunt for Red October
by Tom Clancy
    Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision: the Red October is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. And the most incredible chase in history is on....

Run Silent Run Deep
by Edward L. Beach
    An American equivalent of Das Boot, this gripping, bestselling novel of submarine warfare inspired a well-known Hollywood film starring Burt Lancaster and Clark Gable. Set in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the tension-filled story focuses on an American submarine captain given orders to destroy Japanese shipping in the Pacific. At first his missions go well, but when he takes on an infamous Japanese destroyer, nicknamed Bungo Pete, a terrifying game of cat and mouse begins. From the training of the crew right through to the breathtaking climax, this tale is absolutely riveting, and will have fans of military writers such as Tom Clancy cheering.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne
    Captain Nemo, an enigmatic figure who has withdrawn himself from the world, tours the oceans in his submarine called the Nautilus. We see this journey of 20,000 leagues (approx. 43,200 miles) through the eyes of Professor Pierre Aronnax, a scientist who is both Nemo's guest and prisoner.

Assault on a Queen
by Jack Finney
    Fire Island in early May, after the winter ice melts and before the summer crowd arrives, is the ideal time to raise a submarine from the dead. Six adventurers - five men and a woman - salvage a World War I German submarine from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. They will use it in executing a daring idea, an idea methodically planned and timed with scientific precision. Their goal seems fantastic, but if they can bring it off each one of them will be rich for life. Only the factor of human relations is not taken into account, and the tension between these six people begins to mount unbearably as the moment looms closer and closer for an Assault on a Queen.

The Golden U-Boat
by Richard Henrick
    Nazi U-boat sinks with secret weapon; 50 years later, fugitive SS office salvage it.

Crush Depth
by Joe Buff
    In 2012, the Axis and the Allies are again dueling at sea, but the Axis this time consists of a South Africa under apartheid again and a resurgent imperial Germany. Limited nuclear war has taken place, but key to the outcome is command of the sea. That is disputed primarily between two supersubmarines, the South African Voortrekker and the American Challenger, both ceramic-hulled arsenals of superweapons that can dive three miles deep. Commanding the Voortrekker is megalomaniacal Ter Horst, while his American counterpart is Jeffrey Fuller, whose lover, oceanographer and South African resistance fighter Ilse Reebek, was once Ter Horst's woman!