by Jürgen Rohwer

Hardbound edition published by the Naval Institute Press in 1977, containing 256 pages, 166 photographs.

The title explains the scope of this translated work. Dr. Rohwer provides almost overwhelming detail of the action, especially of the U-Boats involved and their movements. This type of information is usually lacking in books written from the Allied side. Charts, photographs, graphs and appendixes are liberally supplied. Documentation is outstanding. This is an example of a well-researched book

EDITOR NOTE

DICK’s comment regarding the “overwhelming detail” of the book brings to mind a joke one of our German friends told us, which spotlights this trait. It seems that some of the world’s greatest scientists were brought together to study the elephant, and each was told to write about the subject.

The French representative wrote a book of recipes on the many different ways to cook and serve elephant;

The American representative wrote a book entitled “101 ways to make the elephant bigger and better”;

The British representative wrote a book entitled “All the many elephants I have hunted”;

The German representative had an assistant roll out a large cart with 25 huge volumes on it, entitled “A Short Introduction to the Pre-History of the elephant”.