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U-Boat 977 - The True Story of the U-Boat That Escaped to Argentina (Hardcover)
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U-Boat 977 - The True Story of the U-Boat That Escaped to Argentina (Hardcover)
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List price R629
Loot Price R514
Discovery Miles 5 140
You Save R115 (18%)
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When it was first published in 1953, opinions were sharply divided
between those who deplored the apparent extolling of a vicious form
of warfare, and this who found in Heinz Schaeffer s account a
revealing picture of the German Navy s training and methods. U-Boat
977 was the German submarine that escaped to Argentina at the end
of World War Two. This epic journey started from Bergen in Norway,
where in April 1945 it was temporarily based, and took three and a
half months to complete. Because of the continuing Allied naval
activity the commander decided to make the first part of the
journey underwater. Before surfacing near the west coast of Africa
U-977 had spent a remarkable sixty-six days submerged. Heinz
Schaeffer, the commander of U-977 wrote a full account of his
career that culminated in this last command. It depicts the
gruelling aspects of a submariner s life aboard a vessel that was
subjected to harsh conditions of the sea and oceans. As an
experienced commander Schaeffer took part in many of the decisive
U-boat operations in the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean. In the final
months of the war, and in common with most surviving U-boat
commanders, Schaeffer and his crew came under constant attacks from
Allied aircraft and surface ships. The final part of U-Boat 977 is
Schaeffer s account of the journey to Argentina and lays to rest
some of the more fanciful sorties that followed its arrival.
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