Derek Law Bibliography

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WHINNEY, Bob. The U-Boat Peril: An Anti-Submarine Commander's War. 160p., bibliog., illus., index. Poole: Blandford, 1986; New York: Sterling, 1987. ISBN: 0713718218.

An autobiography. He began the war as A/S specialist in Duncan in Shanghai, but quickly returned to the UK. After a brief spell in the A/S Warfare School he went to Cossack in the summer of 1940 and took part in the Bismarck hunt. He then went to join the staff of C-in-C South Atlantic as Fleet A/S Officer. In early 1943 he took over Wanderer and joined EG B1 in the Atlantic and Arctic and finally served as a D-Day convoy escort. In October 1944 he joined the Anti-U-Boat Division of the Admiralty.

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