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Summary: An excellent starting point for those engaged in research.
Review: As a scuba diver of almost 30 years experience and something of an expert on "shipwrecks," I have visited a small number of submarine wrecks over the years. There is something very different about a wrecked submarine and I found the content of this book to be most informative and in some cases fascinating."Verschollen" is the German word used to describe a U-Boat which was lost without trace and, in this book, the author sets out all the available information about 375 such boats. By the very nature of such losses, in some cases, this amount to very little information - after all, U-Boats mysteriously lost at sea at a time of War were not prone to sending back a report explaining what had happened and where. The book itself is hard-back and measures 9¼" x 6¼" containing 330 pages of information. After an informative and very readable, introduction, the lost U-Boats are listed by type; U, UB and UC under which headings the lost vessels appear in numerical order. Each boat is covered in the same way. The main headings comprise; Boat No, Date Lost, Commander, Location, Position and Disposition followed by a short narrative regarding that final journey. This may be anything from a half page to 2 pages depending on the information available I was particularly impressed by the way in which the account of each separate U-Boat is finished off with mention of the various sources of reference used by the author to determine each fate - as far as anyone can make such a determination. Anything between 2 and 5 separate reference sources from America, Britain and Germany are quoted for each lost boat and these alone betray a thorough job of work from this author. I would have liked to have seen more photographs - but the book is no less important for that. This book is an invaluable "starting point" for those with an interest in lost U-Boats in addition to being a vital addition to any Scuba Diver's book-shelf. NM
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Summary: An excellent starting point for those engaged in research.
Review: As a scuba diver of almost 30 years experience and something of an expert on "shipwrecks," I have visited a small number of submarine wrecks over the years. There is something very different about a wrecked submarine and I found the content of this book to be most informative and in some cases fascinating. "Verschollen" is the German word used to describe a U-Boat which was lost without trace and, in this book, the author sets out to inform the reader of all available information about 375 such boats. By the very nature of such losses, in some cases, this amount to very little information - after all, U-Boats mysteriously lost at sea at a time of War were not prone to sending back a report explaining what had happened and where! The book itself is hard-back and measures 9¼" x 6¼" containing 330 pages of information. After an informative and very readable, introduction, the lost U-Boats are listed by type; U, UB and UC under which headings the lost vessels appear in numerical order. Each boat is covered in the same way. The main headings comprise; Boat No, Date Lost, Commander, Location, Position and Disposition followed by a short narrative regarding that final journey. This may be anything from a half page to 2 pages depending on the information available I was particularly impressed by the way in which the account of each separate U-Boat is finished off with mention of the various sources of reference used by the author to determine each fate - as far as anyone can make such a determination. Anything between 2 and 5 separate reference sources from America, Britain and Germany are quoted for each lost boat and alone betray a thorough job of work from this author. I would have liked to have seen more photographs - but the book is no less important for that. This book is an invaluable "starting point" for those with an interest in lost U-Boats in addition to being a vital addition to any Scuba Diver's book-shelf. NM
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