The legendary U-boat ace Otto Kretschmer was branded 'the wolf of the Atlantic', and for good reason. In his dramatic wartime career he sank ship after ship, sowing terror among Allied convoys and dismay in those charged with their protection. Kretschmer was a daring officer who favoured bringing his U-boat into the heart of the convoy and destroying it from within. He earned himself a tremendous reputation before his capture in March 1941, and The Golden Horseshoe makes it clear why. Terence Robertson’s biography of the U-boat ace draws upon first-hand experience of conditions and the deadly game as the hunter sought to outfox the hunted. He paints a masterly portrait of life at sea and weaves in the fascinating story of Kretschmer and the exploits of his U-Boats. Kretschmer was eventually captured and interviewed by Captain McIntyre of HMS Walker, an episode which is also recounted in this book. Otto Kretschmer became a prisoner of war in March 1941 and spent most of the rest of the war in Bowmanville camp, Canada, before his release in 1947.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

This book contains true stories of the very early settlers and pioneers of Virginia, going back as far as the mid-seventeenth century. The book describes how the earliest settlers of Virginia came either from Germany or were Scots or Irish.

The story of how the Williamsburg Inn came about began more than seventy years ago. In 1926, Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin convinced John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to undertake the restoration of Virginia's colonial capital. As the work progressed, the planners quickly realized that visitors to Colonial Williamsburg needed somewhere to stay overnight.