1 minute + 23 seconds of Peter Cremmer interview

maillemaker · 07-29-10, 03:37 PM

"I had a bullet in my chest and a bullet in my head but my brass balls were swinging along just fine as usual!"

Steve

mookiemookie · 07-29-10, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by maillemaker

"I had a bullet in my chest and a bullet in my head but my brass balls were swinging along just fine as usual!"

Steve

Indeed!

frau kaleun · 07-29-10, 06:27 PM

They didn't say Ali Cremer was better than life insurance for nothing.

I highly recommend his book - a short read but a good one, wish it was about ten times longer.

BTW this interview is from the Wolf Pack episode of The World At War, also highly recommended (the whole thing, not just that episode).

Kapt Z · 07-29-10, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by frau kaleun

They didn't say Ali Cremer was better than life insurance for nothing.

I highly recommend his book - a short read but a good one, wish it was about ten times longer.

Second that! Great read.

The man was truly one lucky son-of-a.....!

frau kaleun · 07-29-10, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Kapt Z

Second that! Great read.

The man was truly one lucky son-of-a.....!

Probably my favorite first-person account by a commander so far. Overall he comes across (IMO) as an extremely thoughtful human being.

It was especially poignant because in the book you find out that while his father was German, his mother was French and one of his grandparents was English. I can only imagine what it must have been like to be a young officer and one day wake up to find that your country is at war with two other nations with which you are so intimately connected.

Kapt Z · 07-30-10, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Probably my favorite first-person account by a commander so far. Overall he comes across (IMO) as an extremely thoughtful human being.

One of my favorites as well. I have read many books about the Battle of the Atlantic, but his is the one I find myself going back to again and again.

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07-29-10, 03:37 PM	#1
maillemaker Sea Lord Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,639 Downloads: 75 Uploads: 0	"I had a bullet in my chest and a bullet in my head but my brass balls were swinging along just fine as usual!" Steve

07-29-10, 06:27 PM	#3
frau kaleun Rear Admiral Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Skyri--oh who are we kidding, I'm probably at Lowe's. Again. Posts: 12,706 Downloads: 168 Uploads: 0	They didn't say Ali Cremer was better than life insurance for nothing. I highly recommend his book - a short read but a good one, wish it was about ten times longer. BTW this interview is from the Wolf Pack episode of The World At War, also highly recommended (the whole thing, not just that episode).