Skip to main content

Shooting the War - Memoirs of a World War II U-Boat Officer

By: Naval Institute Press

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Naval Institute Press)

Last Stocked on 1/9/2015

Product Info

Title
Shooting the War - Memoirs of a World War II U-Boat Officer
Category
Author
Otto Giese, James Wise Jr.
Publish Year
1994
Pages
290
Dimensions
8x11x.25"
NKG Part #
2147533863
Type
Hardcover

Description

The war diary of former German naval officer Otto Giese recounts a seafaring career of extraordinary scope. It begins with the dawn of World War II, while the author is a junior officer on board the ocean liner SS Columbus, and continues through his confinement in a British prisoner-of-war camp after the war. This book showcases more than one hundred high-quality photographs taken by Giese throughout his wartime service to present a unique historical overview Interspersed among tales of hardship and loss are colorful, anecdotes that relay the camaraderie surrounding plots to escape detention at Angel Island the unlikely processing of German seamen at Ellis Island, and Giese's experiences policing guerrilla warfare in the Malayan jungle. He greets the incongruous movements of war with equanimity and offers an unwavering assessment of the dictates of duty.