U-Boat Combat Missions.
This book is not about the war, but about the people who were imprisoned by it. They were imprisoned in "Iron Coffins" by their deep-seated conviction to do their duty for their country.
A few of these ordinary men became international heroes, but the majority remained in obscurity; living, working, and fighting under the most torturous conditions humanity has ever devised.
The people in this book are not described in the hyperbolic language of some historians but in their own words—many of them spoke in a foreign language. Yet, despite their struggling with the awkwardness of unfamiliar words, these individuals have provided a far more pertinent and more deeply horrifying picture than any of the meaningless stone epitaphs which litter much of Europe.
For every U-boat man who survived, there were three more who could no longer speak for themselves because they were swallowed by the watery graves of World War II. So, it is important that the few who remain tell following generations how pitifully people were treated by war.
Konteradmirai Eberhard Godt, Chief of the U-boat Arm's Operations Department, once said, "With some things I do not know whether I remember them, whether I dreamed about it, whether my imagination played a role or whether someone told me." This problem has hardly been recognized by modern gatherers of history, and the media bombards us with an incredible volume of self-fabricated stories. No one, not even this book, is immune from such duplicity. But naval history stands out because both sides kept diaries at the time when events took place, and therefore it is possible to check statements made by sailors. When one does this, one comes to the astounding conclusion that the voices recorded in this book are not speaking for themselves, but for all soldiers, of all nations, of all times.
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Книга посвящена германскому подводному флоту времен Второй мировой войны, его боевым походам. Много внимания уделено бытовым подробностям жизни подводников кригсмарине.
U-boat Combat Missions: The Pursuers and the Pursued - First-hand Accounts of U-boat Life and Operations
авторы: Lawrence Paterson
Publisher: Chatham Publishing
Год издания: 2007
Страниц: 160 Pages
ISBN: 1861763204
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Size: 122,8 mb
