U-Boat 977
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 4th pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In one of the most extraordinary true accounts to emerge from the wreckage of the Second World War, U-Boat 977 chronicles the daring and controversial final voyage of a German submarine — a journey that took its crew not into captivity, but across the Atlantic to the shores of Argentina. Captain Heinz Schaeffer narrates in gripping, first-person detail the harrowing 66-day submerged passage his crew undertook in 1945, after Germany's surrender, evading Allied forces and confronting the crushing psychological weight of a defeated nation on the high seas. Written with unflinching candour, this memoir presents a rare and deeply human portrait of life aboard a U-boat, capturing both the claustrophobic terror of submarine warfare and the moral ambiguities faced by ordinary men caught in the machinery of war. Schaeffer's account became a sensation upon publication, fuelling international speculation about the fate of high-ranking Nazi officials and the legendary ratlines used to flee Europe — questions that remain charged with historical significance to this day. Foreworded by renowned naval novelist Nicholas Monsarrat, U-Boat 977 stands as a singular document of courage, controversy, and the desperate instinct for survival that refuses to be silenced by the end of a war.
Author: Heinz Schaeffer
Format: Hardback
Published: 1952, William Kimber, London
Genre: WW2
Edition: 4th pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In one of the most extraordinary true accounts to emerge from the wreckage of the Second World War, U-Boat 977 chronicles the daring and controversial final voyage of a German submarine — a journey that took its crew not into captivity, but across the Atlantic to the shores of Argentina. Captain Heinz Schaeffer narrates in gripping, first-person detail the harrowing 66-day submerged passage his crew undertook in 1945, after Germany's surrender, evading Allied forces and confronting the crushing psychological weight of a defeated nation on the high seas. Written with unflinching candour, this memoir presents a rare and deeply human portrait of life aboard a U-boat, capturing both the claustrophobic terror of submarine warfare and the moral ambiguities faced by ordinary men caught in the machinery of war. Schaeffer's account became a sensation upon publication, fuelling international speculation about the fate of high-ranking Nazi officials and the legendary ratlines used to flee Europe — questions that remain charged with historical significance to this day. Foreworded by renowned naval novelist Nicholas Monsarrat, U-Boat 977 stands as a singular document of courage, controversy, and the desperate instinct for survival that refuses to be silenced by the end of a war.