Robert C. Stern has been writing about 20th-century naval history for more than 35 years. Among his books are The US Navy and the War in Europe (2012), Fire from the Sky: Surviving the Kamikaze Threat (2010), Destroyer Battles: Epics of Naval Close Combat (2008) and The Hunter Hunted: Submarine versus Submarine Encounters from World War I to the Present (2007).