Author of Das Boot dies

bert8for3 · 04-01-07, 06:12 PM

Just picking up this thread, since I picked up Buchheim's book "U-Boat War" today at the library. I highly recommend it.

It's basically a photo diary, plus text, of a patrol on a VII-C boat. I've only scanned thrugh it so far. The photos are incredible. And if anyone was doubting the accuracy of the Das Boot movie meeting in heavy weather of the two U-boats (Thomsen's), there's an amazing series of photos of Buchheim's boat meeting another U-boat ... looks identical.

Details are: Lothar-Gunther Buchheim, "U-Boat War", Trans. Gudie Lawaetz, Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1978. ISBN 0-394-41437-3.

04-01-07, 06:12 PM	#11
bert8for3 Ace of the Deep Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 1,124 Downloads: 110 Uploads: 0	Buchheim's "U-Boat War" Just picking up this thread, since I picked up Buchheim's book "U-Boat War" today at the library. I highly recommend it. It's basically a photo diary, plus text, of a patrol on a VII-C boat. I've only scanned thrugh it so far. The photos are incredible. And if anyone was doubting the accuracy of the Das Boot movie meeting in heavy weather of the two U-boats (Thomsen's), there's an amazing series of photos of Buchheim's boat meeting another U-boat ... looks identical. Details are: Lothar-Gunther Buchheim, "U-Boat War", Trans. Gudie Lawaetz, Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1978. ISBN 0-394-41437-3.