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Careful lest the Das Boot fans tar you as a heretic and run you out of town. Buchhiem's novel has achieved mythological status with many here and one should always be careful questioning dogma.
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That crossed my mind. I've seen that underrcurrent at times. That passage jumped out at me as I read and had to share. I've always told my son that the movie is pretty spiced up-which is fine. Just don't take everything you see in movies as fact.
I still like the movie and love the book but I take it for what it is-a work of fiction.
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Would this be the book you refer to?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Operation-Dr...9169462&sr=1-2
I have just ordered it,thanks to you 
NOTE: There seems to be a likeness to the front cover and my sig pic,only I edited mine to make it appear to look older like a WWII photograph 
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That's the one.
I'm on Chapter 4 and it is excellent.
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Also ordered Patterson's U-boat War Patrol, can't wait!
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Pretty good book. I read it a couple of years ago.
I just finished reading his "U-boats in the Mediterranean"
Meh-I was a little dissapointed. Seemed pretty dry to me. There were a few good eyewitness accounts but it was mostly "U-so and so entered the Med on this date and was sunk by HMS so and so and HMS so and so on XX/XX/XXXX."
It gave some good background though that I wasn't aware of.
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I have Iron Coffins and thought it was a great read.As far as inaccuracies?,I wouldnt know,I wasnt alive in the 40s and never served on a UBoat,nonetheless the book was rivetting at times.
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Good read as well, even withinaccuracies and made up stuff. I definitely wouldn't use it as a source for research.
