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I'm really torn on how to rate this. I knew it was a classic going in and decided it was about time I got around to it after reading Dead Wake by Erik Larson. I imagine that the purpose of the book was to show how awful the experience was the officers assigned to U-boats. The author did a fantastic job of giving a detailed blow-by-blow of daily life under a variety of circumstances from attack to counterattack, from calm seas to storms, from departure to arrival. Here was my problem: it was so incredibly detailed that it became monotonous. Page after page talking about how they had to stay submerged because of a storm that lasted for weeks. The sheer length of each scene was torturous; I enjoy reading well-detailed and descriptive prose, but this was a whole new level. To the author's credit, it made me feel truly immersed in the unpleasantness of such a life. However, the scenes dragged on interminably to the point that it made me want to stop reading and give up.