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Dönitz, U-boats, Convoys: The British Version of His Memoirs from the Admiralty's Secret Anti-Submarine Reports
This unique WWII history combines the memoirs of a Nazi Admiral with secret British naval reports for a comprehensive view of the U-Boat war.
The memoirs of Admiral Karl Dönitz, Ten Years and Twenty Days, are a fascinating first-hand account of the Battle of the Atlantic as seen from the headquarters of the U-boat fleet. Now, noted naval historian Jak P. Mallmann Showell has combined Dönitz's memoirs in a parallel text with the British Admiralty's secret Monthly Anti-Submarine Reports to produce a unique view of the U-boat war as it was perceived at the time by both sides.The British Monthly Anti-Submarine Reports were classified documents issued only to senior officers hunting U-boats. They were supposed to have been returned to the Admiralty and destroyed at the end of the War, but by chance a set survived in the archives of the Royal Navy's Submarine Museum in Gosport. They offer significant and hitherto unavailable insight into the British view of the Battle of the Atlantic as it was being fought.
With expert analysis of these firsthand sources from opposing sides of the conflict, Jak P. Mallmann Showell presents what may be the most complete contemporary
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The U-boat Century: German Sub Warfare 1906-2006
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Reviewed by Charles C. Kolb, Ph.D.
During World War II, Hamburg, Germany’s second largest city – an industrial center with oil refineries, extensive shipyards, and U-boat pens — endured 115 British Royal Air Force strategic bombing raids (1939-1945), one of which in July 1943, code named Operation Gomorrah, created a huge firestorm killing an estimated 58,000 and injuring an additional 180,000. Later the British would call Hamburg the “Hiroshima of Germany.” Jak P. Mallmann Showell, son of a U-boat diesel mechanic recently killed in action at sea, was born in 1944 and grew up in the devastated city. He went to London in 1954 and has lived in England ever since, where he worked as teacher and educational science adviser for many years before turning to writing, researching and photography. Being bilingual has greatly assisted his research in locating and understanding documents produced by both sides during the war; notably, he consults original first-hand documents such as wartime logs and other accounts written shortly after the events. His investigations are also based on numerous oral history interviews with surviving U-boat personnel, among others.
He has written extensively about naval activities during World W