authored Silent Victory (see references). "It is a truncated version of the Operational History (sometimes reproduced word for word).the Operational History in more manageable form." The work was further condensed in paperback by Bantam Books as Pig Boats.
His resulting book was published in 1949 by the U.S. Will of the US Navy Bureau of Personnel hired Roscoe to reduce Richard Voge's 1,500-page Operational History of the submarine war to publishable size.
Nevertheless, the book's sweeping narrative maintains it as a classic text in the American submarine force excerpts are often read at ceremonies where submariners earn their Submarine Warfare insignia. Because the book was written shortly after the war, later scholars have found errors or omissions in its facts. United States Submarine Operations in World War II by Theodore Roscoe is a classic history of the role of the United States Navy submarines in World War II, earning him the title of "grandfather" of World War II American Submarine historiography. United States Destroyer Operations in World War II
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