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The Secret Diary of a U-Boat by and Brooks, Geoffrey Hirschfield, Wolfgang |
Hirschfeld was the radio operator on U-109 during WWII and committed his notes to scraps of paper hidden within old signals logs. These provide the spine to a fascinating and totally absorbing account of life aboard a wartime German submarine. The personal tensions, condensation, depth-charges, boredom and combat are all covered in graphic detail and it shocked me to realise that the old man commander was only in his early twenties at the time.
(Clive Yelf - bwl 73 Summer 2014 ) |
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