Ed Offley has been a military reporting specialist since 1981 for newspapers and online publications. In addition to The Burning Shore: How Hitler's U-boats Brought World War II to America, he is the author of Scorpion Down: Sunk by the Soviets, Buried by the Pentagon - the Untold Story of the USS Scorpion, and Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic. A 1969 graduate of the University of Virginia, Offley served aboard the USS Midway including a Vietnam deployment. He lives in Panama City Beach, Florida with his wife, Karen Conrad.