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U-Boat Adventures

English

By (author): Melanie Wiggins

Twenty-two U-boat veterans tell their stories in this collection of their experiences, recorded by the author during several years of travel throughout Germany. While many books have been written about the U-boat war, this is one of the few that focuses on the lives of the submariners, and rarer still is its concentration on the crewmen rather than the officers. Melanie Wiggins interviewed seventeen men of the enlisted ranks, along with five commanders, to take readers into the terrifying world of underwater warfare, where every single crewman made a crucial difference in the fate of his boat. Among the individual sagas included are Radioman Hans Bürck's description of his 1942 patrol to Aruba and the visit of Japanese submarine I-30 at Lorient; Fireman 2nd Class Josef Erben's explanation of how his boat, U-128, got stuck on a large rock and had to be hauled free; POW Ernst Göthling's memories of being wounded in a British prison camp when German planes mistakenly dropped bombs in the area; and Herman Wien's description of U-180 transporting Indian anarchist Subhas Chandra Bose to Madagascar. Every account gives new details about the crews' activities at sea and their experiences in prisoner-of-war camps. About the Author Melanie Wiggins was born in Forth Smith, Arkansas. Wiggins graduated from Hollins College in Virginia. She lives in League City, Texas. See more
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  • Dimensions: 156 x 228mm
  • Publication Date: 13 May 2010
  • Publisher: Naval Institute Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781591149583

About Melanie Wiggins

Melanie Wiggins was prompted to write her first book, They Made Their Own Law: Stories of Bolivar Peninsula, in 1990 while managing family marshlands in a remote area of the Texas coast. Her interest in local history and a visit to the site of the Hitchcock Naval Air Station inspired her second work, Torpedoes in the Gulf: Galveston and the U-Boats, 1942-1943. During her research for that project, she met a number of U-boat veterans in Germany who offered records, diaries, and photographs of their submarine patrols outside the Gulf of Mexico, and her fascination with their stories led to this book. Born in Forth Smith, Arkansas, Wiggins graduated from Hollins College in Virginia. She lives in League City, Texas.

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