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| 3863 | EDWARDS, Bernard. The Twilight of the U-Boats. ix, 198p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword; Annapolis: NIP, 2004. ISBN: 1844150356.
Follows specific commanders and actions to chart the declining fortunes of the U-boats from 1943-45. |
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| 3864 | FRANK, Wolfgang. Enemy Submarine: The Story of Günther Prien, Captain of U 47, written from Prien's diaries and from sailing with him in action. 200, [8]p., illus. London: Kimber, 1954.
Prien won early fame for his sinking of Royal Oak in Scapa Flow then built a successful record in the Battle of the Atlantic, until his U 47 was sunk in action on 8 March 1941. The book consists of translations of parts of two German books, the main one of which was published in 1942. To balance the wartime German view, passages from the British official history by Roskill are interspersed with the text. |
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| 3865 | FRANK, Wolfgang. The Sea Wolves: The Story of the German U-Boats at War. ix, 252p., illus., index. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; New York: Rinehart, 1955.
An early postwar German view of the war fought by the U-boats, written by a former Public Relations Officer on the staff of the Admiral Commanding U-boats. |
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| 3866 | GASAWAY, E. B. Grey Wolf, Grey Sea. [viii], 245p. London: Arthur Barker, 1972. ISBN: 0213164019.
A popular account of the career of U 124. Her crew came mainly from U 64, sunk in shallow water at Narvik in 1940. Most of them commissioned the new U 124 which then saw a dozen highly successful cruises all over the Atlantic before being sunk with all hands attacking a Gibraltar-bound convoy in April 1943. |
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| 3867 | 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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| 3868 | GOEBELER, Hans Jacob. Steel Boats, Iron Hearts: The Wartime Saga of Hans Goebeler and the U 505. 253p., illus. Holder, Fla.: Wagnerian, 1999. ISBN: 1861762585.
Privately published by his widow these memoirs give the view of an enlisted man. It contains many fascinating stories, including chapters on sabotage in Lorient, the suicide at sea of their skipper, bombing raids, sinking ships, etc., and on the capture of U 505. Republished by Savas and Chatham in 2005. |
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| 3869 | GRIFFIN, Gwyn. An Operational Necessity. 477p. New York: Putnam, 1967; London: Collins, 1968.
Although strictly a novel it deals with the case of U 852, which sank Peleus then fired on the wreckage killing many of the crew and with the subsequent war crimes trial. Reprinted by Harvill in 1999. |
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| 3870 | GUSKE, Heinz F. K. The War Diaries of U 764: Fact or Fiction? 189p., bibliog., illus., index. Gettysburg: Thomas, 1992. ISBN: 0939631431.
A somewhat tedious curiosity in which the PO Telegraphist of U 764 in 1944-45 goes through the war diary of the U-boat line by line to prove that her commander was a liar, coward, and charlatan. |
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| 3871 | HADLEY, Michael L. Count Not The Dead. xiv, 253 p., bibliog., illus., index. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. ISBN: 0773512829.
Basing his study on some 250 German novels, memoirs, fictionalized histories, and films, Michael Hadley examines the popular image of the German submarine and weighs the values, purposes and perceptions of German writers and film makers. |
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| 3872 | HERZOG, Bodo. U-Boote im Einsatz: U-Boats in Action 1939–45. 256p., bibliog., illus. Dorheim: Podzun-Verlag, [1970].
Possibly the most comprehensive published photographic record of the U-boat arm. The excellent photographs are accompanied by a very detailed dual German/English text. The English text leaves much to be desired as a translation. |
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| 3873 | HIRSCHFELD, Wolfgang. Hirschfeld: The Story of a U-Boat NCO 1940–1946. xvi, 253p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Cooper; Annapolis, NIP, 1996. ISBN: 0850525314.
An interesting and unusual perspective from a PO Telegraphist. He joined up in 1935 and in 1940 was transferred to submarines. The bulk of the book is concerned with his six war patrols in U 109, captained by Axel Bleichrodt. They had very mixed fortune. At the beginning of 1943 he was selected for a Warrant Officer's course. Early in 1944 he joined the new schnorkel boat U 234 captained by Heinrich Fehler. She was not ready for sea until March 1945 when she was loaded with a mixed cargo including uranium for Japan. The tenseness of the U-boats' surrender and subsequent imprisonment of and brutality toward the crews is well described. |
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| 3874 | HIRSCHMANN, Werner. Another Place, Another Time: A U-Boat Officer's Wartime Album by Werner Hirschmann with Donald E. Graves. 255p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis: NIP, 2004. ISBN: 1591140137.
Hirschmann was an engineer officer, mainly on U-boats and survived the war. This represents the war and travails of an "ordinary" officer who created a large photographic archive of his life at this period. He served in both the Mediterranean and Atlantic. |
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| 3875 | HOFFMAN, Daniel. Camp 30 "Ehrenwort" - A German Prisoner-of-War Camp in Bowmanville, 1941–1945. 191p., illus. Bowmanville, Ont.: Bowmanville Museum, 1990.
A history of this notorious camp. |
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| 3876 | HÖGEL, Georg. U-Boat Emblems of World War II. 227p, illus., index. Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer, 1999. ISBN: 076430724X.
First published privately in Germany in 1984, this appears to be the first English edition and is of the third 1996 German edition. A comprehensive listing of the emblems and their creation. |
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| 3877 | HOYT, Edwin P. The Death of the U-Boats. 248p., bibliog., illus., index. New York: McGraw Hill, 1988. ISBN: 007030629X.
Attempts to describe the rise and fall of the U-Boat arm as a thriller. |
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| 3878 | HOYT, Edwin P. A Pictorial History of U-Boats. xi, 289p., illus., index. London: Paul; New York: Crowell, 1987. ISBN: 0070306206.
A profusely illustrated guide to the WWII U-boat campaigns. |
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| 3879 | HOYT, Edwin P. The Sea Wolves: Germany's Dreaded U-Boats of World War II (Lancer's Photobook History of Modern Combat, 5). 160p., illus. New York: Lancer, 1972.
An illustrated record. |
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| 3880 | JOHNSON, Rody. Different Battles: The Search for a World War II Hero. 205p. Kansas City: Sunflower UP, 1999. ISBN: 0897452364.
U 333, commanded by Peter Cremer, torpedoed the US tanker Java Arrow off the Florida coast in May 1942. The tanker crew was rescued by the author's father, Kit Johnson, a Coast Guard Auxiliary volunteer, in his fishing boat. This incident is the basis for a story about Cremer and Johnson in war and in old age. The author visited Cremer in Germany and maintained a close association with him until Cremer's death in 1992. |
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| 3881 | JONES, Geoffrey. U-Boat Aces and Their Fates. 256p., illus., index. London: Kimber, 1988. ISBN: 0718306856.
Jones looks at some of the less well known U-boat Commanders who sank major targets. |
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| 3882 | KAPLAN, Philip, & CURRIE, Jack. Wolfpack: U-Boats at War 1939–1945. 240p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Aurum; Annapolis: NIP, 1997. ISBN: 1557509549.
A heavily illustrated work which attempts to record and depict the life of the U-boat crews using largely contemporary records, diaries, poetry, and art. |
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