The necessities of war mother many an ingenious idea. At the height of the U-boat campaign, the office of the Quartermaster General had a timely brain wave. It was described last week in a release ...

Under the command of Lt. Cmdr. Maurice Jester, the Coast Guard cutter Icarus, shown here, sank a German U-boat off the North Carolina coast during WWII. (U.S. Coast Guard) After the Japanese ...

Jeremy Paxman explores how Britain reacted to the campaign by German U-boats to sink merchant shipping and starve the country into submission. Food was rationed, farming was prioritised and ...