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Originally Posted by mrcrowley
- Zu Tode Gesiegt
- Die U-Boot Fahrer
- U Boot Krieg
- Jäger im Weltmeer
- U 96. Szenen aus dem Seekrieg. Ein Film. (is this the one about what he would've done different with Das Boot?)
- Der Film. Das Boot. Mit über 250 Farb- und Schwarzweis-Abbildungen. (is this the "film journal" one?)
- Der Film 'Das Boot'. Sonderausgabe. Ein Journal (or is this the journal one?)
Think that's it aside from the novels he wrote also set during the war (anyone have any opinions on those btw?)...
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Besides the semi-fictious "Die Festung" are these are all of his books which cover the war.
As you probably know the first 3 are photo books with only little text, so you can enjoy them without knowing German - though you didn't mention if you can read the language. Sometimes you can find all of them as a bundle on ebay.de
"Jäger im Weltmeer" is still in print, should be easy to find. The last third of the bokk are photos - at least in my edition, so you want to go for the version with the most pages
"U96" is a female dog to find, been looking for it since quite a time. This one is the script Buchheim wrote before the script for the Boot movie was written (by somebody else).
The last two have the same content, the latter is the newer edition, but it has the same cover and pages as "Der Film Das Boot", which I have and can only recommend. A quick search on amazon.de showed that you can buy it used for as little as 79 cent (plus postage) IIRC there are only one or two articles in this book which are written by Buchheim himself.
Buchheim's (written) criticism about the movie is an article you can find in an old "Geo" magazine. It's called "Die Wahrheit blieb auf Tauchstation" and can be found here:
http://www.kbismarck.com/u-boot/uartikel_geo1981.htm Some guy here at subsim did a fine job and translated the article into English, you can find the thread here:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom//showthread.php?t=113386
"Die Festung" is a bit boring/long in the beginning, but the second half when they are finally on (in?) the boat is quite intense and well-written.
If you are looking for used books in Germany I can recommend you to type "Antiquariat" (used book store) into your search engine. Here are links to two of the better ones to check out:
http://www.abebooks.de/ and
http://www.antiquariate.de/ They both have search functions.
For postage to NZ you can use the search on
http://www.posttip.de/ to find the cheapest parcel service - depending on the weight of the books.