Название: Neither Sharks Nor Wolves: The Men of Nazi Germany's U-boat Army, 1939-1945Автор: Timothy Mulligan
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB, PDF
Страниц: 386
Размер: 10 Mb
Язык: English
Although countless books have been written about the U-boat war in the Atlantic, precious few facts have come to light about the men who served in the submarines that wrought such havoc on Allied ships. Eager to get beyond the stereotypes perpetuated in movies and novels and find out who these elusive sailors really were, archivist Timothy Mulligan started searching official records. Eventually he went straight to the source, conducting a survey of more than a thousand U-boat officers and enlisted men and interviewing a number of them personally. The result is this character study of the German submarine force that challenges traditional and revisionist views of the service. Mulligan found striking similarities in the men's geographic and social origins, education, and previous occupations, particularly within the specialized engineering and radio branches of the submarine force.