U-Boat War Patrol: The Hidden Photographic Diary of U-564
U-Boat War Patrol: The Hidden Photographic Diary of U-564 by Lawrence Paterson
English | May 19, 2016 | ISBN: 1848327846, 185367575X | 208 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (conv) | 41.94 MB
English | May 19, 2016 | ISBN: 1848327846, 185367575X | 208 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/PDF (conv) | 41.94 MB
This unique account charts the complete story of a single U-boat patrol through the summer of 1942 based around a remarkable collection of photographs that were ‘liberated’ from a concrete U-boat pen in Brest at the end of the war and which had, until recently, remained hidden in a shoe box. The boat in question, U-564, carried the famous three black cat motif of Reinhard ‘Teddy’ Suhren who, along with Prien and Kretschmer, was one of the top U-boat commanders during the battles of the Atlantic.
This remarkable book provides unique access into both the day-to-day life of a
U-boat at sea and into the detailed workings of the Kriegsmarine. Through the successes and trials of U-564 the reader is transported to that vast and watery battlefield that was perhaps the most significant theater of the Second World War.