![]() Once youve finished, your understand something. One is able to truely experience what the war was like through Mr. The years of glory, followed by disaster & defeat with 779 German U-boats out of a force of 842, sunk by the Allies. Iron Coffins is a fast paced book that is hard to put down. The battle of the Atlantic by a former U-boat commander. Indentations on cover with small damaged area on cover. ![]() XXII, 342, (4 publications) PP with 1 map on double page, 1 cutaway and 1 section plan of a U-Boat, plus 8 pages with 17 b/w photos, 1 map and 2 plans of submarine. Foreword by Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Hezlet. 2nd printing of the 1972 paperback edition. ‘Grim but telling … the murderous story of the car- nage in the Atlantic as seen through the periscope of a German U-boat’ – The Evening News ‘Unparalleled … a personal account of a perceptive observer and a skilled adversary’ – New York Times The cover illustration shows a detail from the painting ‘The Death of a Urboat’ by the late Norman Wilkinson, and is reproduced by kind permission of the Executors of his Estate and the National Maritime Museum. The ocean floor was littered with their iron coffins. Of the 842 U-boats launched, 779 were sunk. ![]() Of the 39,000 men who fought in the U-boats in World War 11, 28,000 failed to return. skill, daring and luck enabled him to survive and tell his amazing story. ![]() He is one of the very few U-boat commanders whose. ![]() Iron Coffins The author fought for four bitter, death-defying years as an officer on five German submarines. ![]()
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