Das Boot The Boat One of the Best Novels Ever Written About War - Cassell Military Paperbacks

Filled with almost unbearable tension and excitement, DAS BOOT is one of the best stories ever written about war, a supreme novel of the Second World War and an acclaimed film and TV drama.It is autumn 1941 and a German U-boat commander and his crew set out on yet another hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic. Over the coming weeks they must brave the stormy waters of the Atlantic in their mission to seek out and destroy British supply ships. But the tide is beginning to turn against the Germans in the war for the North Atlantic. Their targets now travel in convoys, fiercely guarded by Royal Navy destroyers, and when contact is finally made the hunters rapidly become the hunted. As the U-boat is forced to hide beneath the surface of the sea a cat-and-mouse game begins, where the increasing claustrophobia of the submarine becomes an enemy just as frightening as the depth charges that explode around it. Of the 40,000 men who served on German submarines, 30,000 never returned. Written by a survivor of the U-boat fleet, DAS BOOT is a psychological drama merciless in its intensity, and a classic novel of the Second World War.

ISBN:	9780304352319
Publisher:	Orion
Imprint:	Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published date:	03 Jun 1999
DEWEY:	833.914
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Sales rank:	32736
Number of pages:	563
Weight:	402g
Height:	196mm
Width:	132mm
Spine width:	37mm

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