From back of book: Of Ice and Steel is a novel in which Meadows gives a nerve-wracking pictue of how th emen and machines would react to a mysterious threat that the major undersea powers fear, and cannot understand. Using an intriguing science fiction idea, Meadows puts a WWII German U-Boat with the exotic cargo into suspended animation in the Arctic ice. Waking from that suspension, the ship's captain drives his crew to complete the mission they started sixty years before, completly unaware of changes in the world...and deadly to the ships of "hostile" nations. The result is a frighteningly realistic yarn of how skilled submarine warriors of different times an dnations figure out what's happening, and deal with it without destroying the world.

(Source: Leatherneck publishing)