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08-06-10, 09:56 AM | #1 | |
Ocean Warrior
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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. |
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08-06-10, 09:58 AM | #2 |
Rear Admiral
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Wow, thanks for the info!
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08-06-10, 10:10 AM | #3 |
Ocean Warrior
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np, I'm glad if I can help, I got into submarines through the TV series and the book, with my interest "refueled" through SH3
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08-06-10, 04:43 PM | #4 |
Swabbie
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Vielen Dank! I studied German for 3 years at High School and have been learning a little by hanging around lots of Germans who come on exchange to NZ
So I can read a little bit but not enough to be able to understand the German books by Buchheim. I always do English homework for my German friends so perhaps they can pay me back and translate parts of his books |
08-10-10, 05:17 AM | #5 |
Ocean Warrior
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Gerne!
If you want to train your listening comprehension, there will also be an audio book of "Das Boot" published in October called "Das Boot: Schall & Wahn". I haven't found out if it is abridged but it is read by Dieter Bär, one of our good actors who speaks a very clear German. Should be easier to understand than the often mumbling U-96 crew from the movie |
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