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Steel Boat Iron Hearts Lib/E: A U-Boat Crewman's Life Aboard U-505 (Audio book)

English · Audio book

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Using his own experiences, log books, and correspondence with other U-boat crewmen, Hans Goebeler offers rich and personal details about what life was like in the German Navy under Hitler. Since his first and last posting was to U-505, Goebeler's perspective of the crew, commanders, and war patrols paints a vivid and complete portrait unlike any other to come out of the Kriegsmarine. He witnessed it all, from deadly sabotage efforts that almost sunk the boat to the tragic suicide of the only U-boat commander who took his life during World War II. The vivid, honest, and smooth-flowing prose calls it like it was and pulls no punches. U-505 was captured by Captain Dan Gallery's Guadalcanal Task Group 22.3 on June 4, 1944. Trapped by this hunter-killer group, U-505 was depth-charged to the surface, strafed by machine gun fire, and boarded. It was the first ship captured at sea since the War of 1812. Today, hundreds of thousands of visitors tour U-505 each year at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. This edition includes a special foreword by Keith Gill, curator of U-505 at the Museum of Science and Industry.

About the author










Hans Goebeler was born in Bottendorf, Germany, on November 9, 1923. At the age of seventeen, he joined the Navy and served as control room mate aboard U-505. Years later, he moved his family to the United States to be close to his beloved boat and began penning his wartime memoir. Hans passed away in 1999.

Product details

Authors Hans Goebeler, John Vanzo
Assisted by Norman Dietz (Reader / Narrator)
Publisher Tantor Audio
 
Languages English
Product format CD-Audio (Playing time: 11h 38min)
Released 31.07.2016
 
EAN 9781799976066
ISBN 978-1-79997-606-6
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration

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