Michael Hadley is professor emeritus of German, a member of the editorial board of the Canadian Nautical Research Society, and a former long-serving officer in the Naval Reserve. His works include U-Boats Against Canada, Tin-Pots and Pirate Ships (with Roger Sarty), and Count Not the Dead: The Popular Image of the German Submarine. He edited and contributed to A Nation's Navy: In Quest of Canadian Naval Identity. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia.