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Memoirs--ten years and twenty days / by Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz ; translated by R.H. Stevens in collaboration with David Woodward ; with a preface by Jak P. Mallmann Showell ; with an introduction and afterword by Professor Dr. Jürgen Rohwer

Author
Dönitz, Karl, 1891-1980
Uniform Title
Zehn Jahre und zwanzig Tage. English
Published
London : Frontline Books ; Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, 2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource (818 pages).
Additional Creators
Stevens, R. H. (Translator) and Rohwer, Jürgen
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Language Note
Translated from the German.
Contents
Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Prologue -- 2. The new task -- 3. Wolf-pack tactics -- 4. U-Boat building policy 1935-1939 -- 5. The decisive months of 1939 -- 6. The U-Boat war begins -- 7. The Norwegian operation and the torpedo crisis -- 8. The Battle of the Atlantic -- 9. Organization of U-Boat arm and of U-Boat construction -- 10. The Battle of the Atlantic -- 11. America's war against us before December 11, 1941 -- 12. Operations in American waters -- 13. Convoy battles and distant operations -- 14. The 'Laconia' -- 15. Improvements in U-Boat equipment and armament -- 16. More convoy battles and operations in distant waters -- 17. Commander-in-Chief of the Navy -- 18. Collapse of the U-Boat war -- 19. My tasks as Commander-in-Chief 1943-45 -- 20. July 20, 1944 -- 21. The U-Boat war from May 1943 to the end -- 22. Head of the government -- 23. Epilogue -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4 -- Appendix 5 -- Appendix 6 -- Afterword. Doenitz and the Battle of the Atlantic -- Index.
Summary
The story of the last world war, as told by Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz himself. His memoir covers his early career with submarines in the First World War and follows both his successes and failures through the Second World War, with great detail on the way the U-boat campaign was waged, as told by the man who invented U-boat tactics. Doenitz includes details of the U-boat campaigns during the Second World War as well as the opinions, ideas and commentary on the period. Of particular interest are the comments regarding British and American conduct during the war. ...
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ISBN
9781783031429 (electronic bk.)
1783031425 (electronic bk.)
9781783031405 (electronic bk.)
1783031409 (electronic bk.)
9781848326446
1848326440
9781591142157
1591142156
0304356867
9780304356867
Note
Translation of: Zehn Jahre und zwanzig Tage.
Includes index.
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