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Boat, The

By: Bantam Books

Type: Novel - Softcover

Product Line: Historical Novels (Bantam Book)


Product Info

Title
Boat, The
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
Lothar Gunther Buchheim
Publish Year
1976
Pages
564
Dimensions
4.25x7x1"
NKG Part #
2147960020
Type
Novel - Softcover

Description

From Germany, where it provoked a storm of controversy, comes this truly extraordinary novel about men at war. The Boat is the story of a World War II U-Boat and her crew, told with stunning force, by Lothar Gunther Buchheim, who served on one, who saw the worst and who has remembered every detail with a blazing obsession. Of the 40,000 men aboard German submarines, 30,000 never returned.

Filled with unbearable urgency and excitement, this is more than a novel about war at sea, although it records the brutal details of death in battle. This is the fearful tale of men in mortal danger, a celebration of human endurance that, in its compassion, its beauty and its power, compares with All Quiet on the Western Front. Acclaimed - and damned - for its devastating candor about Germany's fighting men, this is a supreme novel about World War II by a man on the other side.