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you could say that about the SH series...they are not fact but based on some kind of fact and hugely enjoyable.

those two books are cracking reads - i would love to have read them as a boy, side light on late at night in bed.

i found Das Boot very atmospheric, claustrophobic - its a shame his other novels are not translated.

Iron Coffins left me feeling sad for the whole thing - the sheer waste of men and machinery, the folly.

both men are very good writers and i take my hat off to them for what they have produced.

i believe Clay Blair's The Hunters ( which i started reading but put down) got criticisms because of his 'Over Americanisation-Interpretation' of that particular history: A History Book!

thats what i want from a story - feeling. i can go to the history books for the truth and Operation Drumbeat combined the two brilliantly - i did not want it to end.