Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #650744 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Customer Reviews

An excellent volume on the subject....
As its inside cover states, this oversized book is full of maps, technical drawings, tables, rare photos, and stories. So you see its more than just an informative factual textbook, it is also an easy to enjoy coffee table book, nicely bound on good paper (Brasseys Hardback ISBN: 1574882465).

One large table over many pages lists very nearly every U-Boat number and its type, builder, commisioned date, and its ultimate eding: fate, date, final captain, place, means, dead, and saved, e.g.

U-1229; Type IXC/40; built by Duetche; commisioned January 13,1944; Sunk; on August 20, 1944; Captained by Zinke, A; at SE of Newfoundland; by USN aircfaft: VC-42 (Bogue); 18 dead; ? # Saved.

More text than anything else, but also there's always some sort of graphics on every page, well maybe not at the index :)

If you need only one volume on U-Boats this might be the very best choice.

An interesting book on U-Boats
It's a nice book for those who are interested on German U-boats.
It also contain a brief introduction on Enigma (the German encryption machine).
Unfortunately it does not contain some engineering drawings such as those in Roessler books.But though useful.
Its historical coverage of german U-boats is also useful.
As a researcher on German U-boats ,I'd be glad to have other readers,writers comments on U-Boat articles.
Regards/mit freundlichem Gruess
M.Ranjbar ( mehranjbar@hotmail.com

Excellent
I collect and read books on U-Boats, and this illustrated history is an excellent addition to my library. A must for those who are World War II buffs!