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WERNER, HERBERT A. Iron coffins. A personal account of the German U-boat battles of World War II.
New York Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969 030813220 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good with no dust jacket
Xvi, 329, [2] pages, 16 plates, maps, diagrams, cloth, very good. From the publisher: "Iron Coffins" is the dramatic personal memoir of one of the few surviving German U-boat commanders of World War II. The Battle of the Atlantic was one of the most savage, fiercely fought, and strategically significant "campaigns" of World War II. At its conclusion, the ocean floor was littered with its victims: more than 2,800 Allied merchantmen and 175 Allied warships were lost; 779 German U-boats (of an operational force of 842) , and 28,000 out of 39,000 men in the German U-boat force disappeared beneath the waves. Of most importance is that from the summer of 1943 on Anglo-American forces, employing carrier and land-based planes, destroyers and corvettes, radar, and other special antisubmarine tactics, managed to sweep the seas of the German wolf packs, insuring the delivery of the guns, ammunition, and supplies that forged the sword of victory in North Africa, Italy, and France and bolstered the Eastern front in faraway Russia. Herbert A. Werner fought for four bitter death-defying years (1941-1945) in this momentous battle as an officer of five German U-boats. In "Iron Coffins", Werner takes the reader with him into the German submarines on which he and his comrades fought their historic battle. He traces the triumphant years of 1941 and 1942 in which the German U-boats threatened to strangle England; the crucial campaign of 1943 in which the German submarines were hunted down and virtually exterminated; and the final years of destruction in 1944 and 1945 in which only Werner's skill, daring, and luck enabled him to survive and tell his story. A classic account of U-boat operations in World War II. ; 329 pages
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