U-Boat
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: slight lean to book.
Beneath the cold, crushing depths of the Atlantic, a German U-boat crew wages a desperate war of nerves, endurance, and survival in Lothar-Günther Buchheim's visceral masterpiece, U-Boat. Originally published in German as Das Boot, this landmark novel chronicles a single wartime patrol through the eyes of a war correspondent embedded aboard a German submarine, capturing with unflinching realism the claustrophobic terror, mechanical breakdowns, and psychological strain that define life beneath the waves during the Second World War. Buchheim, himself a war artist and correspondent who sailed on such a mission in 1941, renders the experience with documentary precision and raw emotional power, blurring the line between fiction and memoir. U-Boat stands as one of the most significant anti-war novels to emerge from the German literary tradition, distinguished by its refusal to glorify combat and its compassionate portrayal of ordinary men caught in an extraordinary and brutal conflict. Buchheim's prose, masterfully translated here by J. Maxwell Brownjohn, moves between tense, suffocating action sequences and quieter moments of reflection, painting a portrait of camaraderie forged under impossible conditions. A work that challenges notions of heroism and nationhood, it leaves the reader haunted long after the final page — and asking what it truly means to survive a war.
Author: Lothar-Günther Buchheim
Format: Hardback
Published: 1974, Collins
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: slight lean to book.
Beneath the cold, crushing depths of the Atlantic, a German U-boat crew wages a desperate war of nerves, endurance, and survival in Lothar-Günther Buchheim's visceral masterpiece, U-Boat. Originally published in German as Das Boot, this landmark novel chronicles a single wartime patrol through the eyes of a war correspondent embedded aboard a German submarine, capturing with unflinching realism the claustrophobic terror, mechanical breakdowns, and psychological strain that define life beneath the waves during the Second World War. Buchheim, himself a war artist and correspondent who sailed on such a mission in 1941, renders the experience with documentary precision and raw emotional power, blurring the line between fiction and memoir. U-Boat stands as one of the most significant anti-war novels to emerge from the German literary tradition, distinguished by its refusal to glorify combat and its compassionate portrayal of ordinary men caught in an extraordinary and brutal conflict. Buchheim's prose, masterfully translated here by J. Maxwell Brownjohn, moves between tense, suffocating action sequences and quieter moments of reflection, painting a portrait of camaraderie forged under impossible conditions. A work that challenges notions of heroism and nationhood, it leaves the reader haunted long after the final page — and asking what it truly means to survive a war.