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Originally Posted by Randomizer
Well Steve, having just recently re-read The Cruel Sea I suspect you're remembering parts of it wrong at least. Finding the following passages was easy and there are a number of others:
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I don't find any of those passages troublesome at all. He's expressing the feelings that sailors have, and the first passages actually is what I was referring to in my comment.
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I suspect that Monserrat did an excellent job of capturing the hardening of feelings against the U-Boat crews in the Battle of the Atlantic.
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In the passages you quoted he mentions the feeling that the Germans must feel the same. The hatred is generated by the nature of war.
In his intro to
U-Boat 997 he openly states that Heinz Schaeffer's writes good stories, but not to believe him when he talks about comeraderie. Moserrat then says that all Germans were ravening nazis and shouldn't be trusted. This is a far cry from what I got from
The Cruel Sea.