| Entry Text: | GIESE, Otto, & WISE, James E. Shooting the War: The Memoir and Photographs of a U-Boat Officer in World War II. xiii, 291p., illus., index. London: Cooper; Annapolis: NIP, 1994. ISBN: 0850524210.
Giese was a merchant office in 1939 on the scuttled s.s. Columbus. He made his way via the United States to Japan and joined the blockade runner Anneliese Essberger for the run home to Germany, supplying raiders on route. He joined the U-boats as an ordinary seaman and after training joined U 405 operating in the Arctic. With his office status regained he joined U 181 operating in the Far East. After an abortive sailing for Germany with vital cargo the U-boat was trapped by the end of the war. The book has excellent photographs and is very good on the camaraderie of the crew. It also has a fascinating account of the treatment of German prisoners in the Far East in 1945. |
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