| Entry Text: | PATERSON, Lawrence. U-Boat Combat Missions. The Pursuers & the Pursued: First-Hand Accounts of U-Boat Life and Operations. 156p., bibliog., illus. London: Chatham, 2007. ISBN: 1861763204.
The author has pieced together the technical details of the roles of individual crew members with extensive first-hand reports. These experiences - from cooks to engineers and from young recruits to battle-hardened commanders - build up into a picture of life undersea. U-boat men also had a reputation for making the most of time spent ashore, between missions, and a vivid portrayal of life back at the home bases is also drawn. |
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