Synopses & Reviews
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.
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"At times this reviewer was reminded of episodes from "All Quiet on the Western Front". There is the same innocently calculated irony of detail amid seeming triumph. . . . [An] unparalleled memoir by a perceptive observer and a skilled adversary".--"The New York Times Book Review". "Page for page, this is one of the most exciting accounts of submarine warfare and what is was like aboard German U-boats that we are likely to be given. . . . Poignant . . . first rate".--"Publishers Weekly"
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"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. Herber"