Iron Coffins: A U-boat Commander's War, 1939-45

[Hinrich Schwab]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Noobs!

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Review:
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I think we need a few more threads, just to be sure.

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

Off the top of my head I recall it being a good book, but a lot of people here will shout it down as being written with poetic licence.

They still all enjoyed it though.

I agree with this. If one reads this for the sake of entertainment, the book will most certainly achieve its purpose. As far as a factual account, the answer is "no".

One must definitely de-fog the periscope before looking through it on this one. I think what makes this work draw so much venom is that people expected a recreation of events while the book is pretty much a romanticization of them. Likewise with Das Boot, Werner wrote this decades after the war and admitted in the book that he destroyed his journals on one of his patrols. As long as the book is not taken too seriously, it is good. Its scholastic merit is negligible except as an example of literature.