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Hirschfeld - The Secret Diary Of A U-Boat (The Story Of A U-boat NCO 1940 - 1946 - Second Edition) by Wolfgang Hirschfeld, Geoffrey Brooks, Introduction by, Jak P. Mallmann-Showell is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Whilst there have been many memoirs written by German U-Boat commanders of World War II, a book such as this, based upon the personal diaries and photographs of an highly experienced Kriegsmarine Oberfunkmeister (Petty Officer Telegraphist - German Navy), written in 'real time' is something that is both unique and very special. Wolfgang Hirschfeld (1916-2005) kept his 'highly illegal' personal diaries from the day he entered the Kriegsmarine in 1935, through to the day he left the service in 1946, originally published in West Germany during the 1980s they were translated into English by Geoffrey Brooks and first released in the 1990s. The diaries mainly concentrate on his wartime experiences during six war cruises on board U-109 and are full of incidents which cover the whole kaleidescope of emotions shared by seamen of any nation when at war - a story of immense courage and fortitude, of remarkable comradeship born of the dangers, frustrations and deprivations shared and of transitory moments of triumph. Throughout runs a vein of black humour, without which resistance to stress would have been virtually impossible. In 1944 Wolfgang Hirschfeld was promoted, and he soon found himse

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Author

Wolfgang Hirschfeld, Geoffrey Brooks, Introduction by, Jak P. Mallmann-Showell

Publisher

Pen & Sword Books Limited

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781848326224

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir