Iron Coffins: A Personal Account of the German U-Boat Battles of World War II

About this book

In this jawdropping memoir, a former German U-boat commander recounts the thrills, tragedies, and triumphs of war at sea. The Battle of the Atlantic was one of the most savage and strategically significant campaigns of World War II: 28,000 out of 39,000 men in the German U-boat force disappeared beneath the waves. Herbert A. Werner, one of the few surviving German U-boat commanders, served on five submarines from 1941 to 1945. From the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, from the English Channel to the North Sea, he takes the reader with him through the triumphant years of 1941 and 1942, when German U-boats nearly strangled England, to the apocalyptic final years of destruction, disillusionment, and defeat.

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9780306811609

Publisher

Grand Central Publishing

Published

June 6, 2002

Pages

388

Weight

15 oz

Subject

History