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Old 10-21-06, 09:08 AM   #23
John Pancoast
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Originally Posted by MobyGrape
Read Iron coffins, and Das Boot..I had odd feelings about Iron coffins..think its maybe more fiction than fact.
Not a Novel but a Great read is , Convoy by Martin MIddlebrook..just saw a movie named Enigma that sheds further info about that book, it seems that The Benchley park stuff was still Top secret when he wrote book.
This was the Last great raid by German uboots against Atlantic convoys..It turns out this is when Benchley park reacquired the base of the enigma code,,from weather reports that uboots broad-casted..
Yeah, I felt the same way about Iron Coffins. For that matter, I prefer to stay away from most memoirs for that reason, plus the writer usually tends to paint themselves in a positive light, while everyone else is the opposite.
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