PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Herbert A Werner was born in 1920. He joined the German Navy in 1939, and the U-boats in 1941, taking up his first command in 1943. He survived the war, was interned by the Americans, British and French, eventually to become an American citizen in 1957.
Once unacceptable, a sympathetic attitude to German combatants in the last war is now a well-established factor in war literature. This story of triumph and disaster is a classic example: Werner was one of the very few U-boat commanders whose courage and professionalism carried him safely through to the end of the war. U-boats were known as iron coffins, and few survived the appaling dangers of naval combat. But Werner's mesmerizing first-person account of the havoc created by one small sub on the Atlantic convoys is rendered in astringent and measured prose. This story has an accelerating tension, as Allied detection and attack techniques improved, and Werner's U-boat swiftly went from being the hunter to the hunted. Of 842 U-boats launched, 779 were sunk, iron coffins for 28,000 men. The author's graphic account is dedicated to seamen of all nations who died in the battle of the Atlantic, and few will dispute the heroism shown on both sides. A selection of powerfully evocative photographs complements Werner's text. (Kirkus UK)
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