FOREWORD [by Karl Dönitz]
The book The German Navy in World War II by Edward P. Von der Porten presents in its broad view an accurate, clear, and vivid picture of German naval strategy.

INTRODUCTION
Warfare has often been treated as a phenomenon sharply separated from the broad movements of history: as a grand adventure, a mystical test of personal or national virility, a chessboard for monarchs, a senseless contest secretly controlled by economics, or the supreme irrationality of mankind.