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Wolf: U-boat Commanders in World War II
Jordan Vause
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Description for Wolf: U-boat Commanders in World War II
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 367.
Cultivated by the Allied press during the war and fostered by movies and novels ever since, the image of a U-boat skipper held by most Americans is the personification of evil: the wolf who stalks innocents. Quite the opposite image is shared by U-boat veterans and others sympathetic to their work: the knight who endures unrivaled danger and fights nobly. Yet another popular image depicts the submarine operator as a beleaguered sailor swept along by events beyond his control. This book examines the lives of many U-Bootwaffe officers, including the famous and the not-so-well known, to see if a pattern ... Read more
Cultivated by the Allied press during the war and fostered by movies and novels ever since, the image of a U-boat skipper held by most Americans is the personification of evil: the wolf who stalks innocents. Quite the opposite image is shared by U-boat veterans and others sympathetic to their work: the knight who endures unrivaled danger and fights nobly. Yet another popular image depicts the submarine operator as a beleaguered sailor swept along by events beyond his control. This book examines the lives of many U-Bootwaffe officers, including the famous and the not-so-well known, to see if a pattern ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Annopolis, United States
ISBN
9781591145707
SKU
V9781591145707
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3
About Jordan Vause
Jordan Vause is a 1978 graduate of the United States Naval Academy. He now lives in the San Diego area and works as a quality engineer. Wolf first published in 1997, was the second of two books he wrote on the subject of the U-boat war in general and the character of the U-boat commander specifically.
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