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Old 04-04-10, 05:29 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Randomizer View Post
... Use some caution with U-Boats at War, Harald Busch was a war correspondent like Buchheim of Das Boot fame and his book was the first German work on the subject to appear after WW2 and the first to de-Nazify the U-Boot Waffe. ...
Very true!

The Balentines edition of this book has good foot-notes which correct a number of historical inaccuracies on the authors part (for instance, Busch exaggerated the tonnage sunk, as well as other favorable aspects of the U-Boot Waffe and its commanders) .
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