Silent Hunters: German U-Boat Commanders of World War II
Silent Hunters: German U-Boat Commanders of World War II by Theodore P. Savas
English | Jan 16, 2004 | ISBN: 1844150623, 1882810171, 1591148170 | 240 Pages | EPUB/PDF (Converted) | 7.64 MB
English | Jan 16, 2004 | ISBN: 1844150623, 1882810171, 1591148170 | 240 Pages | EPUB/PDF (Converted) | 7.64 MB
While most aspects of the bitter U-Boat struggle have been told and retold from both the Axis and Allied points of view, the careers of some highly effective U-boat commanders have languished in undeserved obscurity. The profiles of six such commanders are presented in this collection of essays. They include Karl-Friedrich Merten, ranked among the war's top tonnage aces; Ralph Kapitsky, whose U-615 suicidal surface-to-air battle in the Caribbean allowed many of his fellow submariners to escape into the Atlantic; Fritz Guggenberger, who sank an aircraft carrier and organized the biggest POW escape attempt in American history.