![]() ![]() What insignia on his sleeve?-U-boat man! He's standing just outside the beam of our headlight, waving his arms. The Old Man handles it well, and without skidding, the heavy car comes to a stop in front of a wildly gesticulating figure. The Commander has the accelerator all the way down, as if this were a race. The moon is not yet up, but you can make out a pale ribbon of a road. ![]() Of the 40,000 German U-boat men in World War II, 30,000 did not return.įrom the officers' billet in the Hotel Majestic to the Bar Royal the coast road describes a single extended curve three miles long. The United States was providing supplies for the Soviet Union and itself became-immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor-a nation at war. In North Africa the British troops went on the offensive. Before Moscow, the troops of the Wehrmacht-only a few weeks after the battle of encirclement at Kiev-were brought to a standstill for the first time. At that time the turning point was becoming apparent in all the theaters of the war. The operations that form the subject of the book took place primarily in the fall and winter of 1941. Nevertheless, the description of the characters who take part are not portraits of real persons living or dead. The author witnessed all the events reported in it they are the sum of his experiences aboard U-boats. This book is a novel but not a work of fiction. The normal crew for a boat of this class was 50 on this voyage, however, the Second Engineer was a supernumerary, on board for duty training. PETTY OFFICERS AND SEAMEN ("LORDS"): Ario-diesel stoker Bachmann ("Gigolo")-diesel stoker Behrmann ("Number One")-bosun the Bible scholar-control-room assistant Bockstiegel-seaman Dorian ("the Berliner")-bosun's mate Dufte-seaman Dunlop-torpedo manįackler-diesel stoker Franz-chief mechanic Frenssen-diesel mechanic mate Hacker-torpedo mechanic Hagen-E-stoker Herrmann-sound man Hinrich-radioman Isenberg ("Tin-ear Willie")-control-room mate Johann-chief mechanic Katter ("Cookie")-cook Kleinschmidt-diesel mechanic mate Kriechbaum-navigator Little Benjamin-helmsman Markus-helmsman Pilgrim-E-mate Rademacher-E-mate Sablonski-diesel stoker Schwalle-seaman Turbo-control-room assistant Ullmann-ensign Wichmann-bosun's mate Zeitler-bosun's mate Zörner-E-stoker and fourteen others unnamed. DASBOOT SMASH 4 FULLTHE CREW OF THE BOAT OFFICERS: Commander (the Old Man-also addressed as Herr Kaleun, the standard naval abbreviation of his full title, Herr Kapitänleutnant) First Watch Officer Second Watch Officer Chief Engineer (the Chief) Second Engineer Narrator-a naval war correspondent Verlag.ĬONTENTS i ii iii iv v vi vii viii ix x xiīAR ROYAL DEPARTURE FRIGGING AROUND: FRIGGING AROUND: FIRST ATTACK STORM CONTACT SECOND ATTACK PROVISIONING GIBRALTAR RETURN VOYAGE Originally published in West Germany as _Das Boot_ by R. Distributed by Random House, Inc., New York. Published in the United States by Alfred A. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. THE BOAT by Lothar-Günther Buchheim Translated from the German by Denver and Helen Lindley Copyright 1975 by Alfred A. ![]()
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