U-Boat 977
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 4th ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
In the dying days of the Second World War, one German submarine slipped beneath the waves and vanished — only to surface months later off the coast of Argentina, igniting one of the war's most enduring mysteries. U-Boat 977 is the firsthand account of Heinz Schaeffer, commander of the Type VIIC submarine that made a record-breaking 66-day submerged voyage across the Atlantic, a feat of seamanship and survival that stunned both the Allied powers and the post-war world. Schaeffer chronicles the gruelling final patrols of the Kriegsmarine, the impossible choices faced by men caught between duty and defeat, and the extraordinary journey that led his crew to surrender to Argentine authorities in August 1945 — months after Germany's capitulation. Beyond its gripping narrative of nautical endurance, this memoir stands as a rare and intimate document of the psychological toll of submarine warfare and the moral ambiguities of soldiering for a crumbling regime. Schaeffer writes with the disarming candour of a man processing both pride and disillusionment, offering an insider's perspective that few Allied histories could provide. With a preface by the Earl of Cork and Orrery and a foreword by the acclaimed novelist Nicholas Monsarrat, author of The Cruel Sea, this account carries the endorsement of those who understood better than most the terrible theatre of the North Atlantic — and it leaves the reader wondering just how much of the story has yet to be told.
Author: Heinz Schaeffer
Format: Hardback
Published: 1952, William Kimber
Genre: WW2
Edition: 4th ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
In the dying days of the Second World War, one German submarine slipped beneath the waves and vanished — only to surface months later off the coast of Argentina, igniting one of the war's most enduring mysteries. U-Boat 977 is the firsthand account of Heinz Schaeffer, commander of the Type VIIC submarine that made a record-breaking 66-day submerged voyage across the Atlantic, a feat of seamanship and survival that stunned both the Allied powers and the post-war world. Schaeffer chronicles the gruelling final patrols of the Kriegsmarine, the impossible choices faced by men caught between duty and defeat, and the extraordinary journey that led his crew to surrender to Argentine authorities in August 1945 — months after Germany's capitulation. Beyond its gripping narrative of nautical endurance, this memoir stands as a rare and intimate document of the psychological toll of submarine warfare and the moral ambiguities of soldiering for a crumbling regime. Schaeffer writes with the disarming candour of a man processing both pride and disillusionment, offering an insider's perspective that few Allied histories could provide. With a preface by the Earl of Cork and Orrery and a foreword by the acclaimed novelist Nicholas Monsarrat, author of The Cruel Sea, this account carries the endorsement of those who understood better than most the terrible theatre of the North Atlantic — and it leaves the reader wondering just how much of the story has yet to be told.