{"id":62029,"date":"2023-01-17T11:40:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T17:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=62029"},"modified":"2023-01-17T11:40:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T17:40:21","slug":"ww2-books-worth-a-damn-das-boot-the-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/17\/ww2-books-worth-a-damn-das-boot-the-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"WW2 Books Worth a Damn: Das Boot (The Boat)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Das-Boot-Boat-Lothar-G%C3%BCnther-Buchheim\/dp\/0304352314\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=18FG95K6DSUHV&amp;keywords=das+boot&amp;qid=1673783411&amp;sprefix=das+boot%2Caps%2C1780&amp;sr=8-2\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-62030 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/01\/boat33.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><em>&#8220;The thrilling wartime novel that inspired Wolfgang Petersen&#8217;s Academy Award-nominated, blockbuster film! Written by an actual survivor of Germany&#8217;s U-boat fleet,<span class=\"a-text-italic\">\u00a0Das Boot<\/span> is one of the most exciting stories of naval warfare ever published, a tale filled with almost unbearable tension and suspense. In autumn 1941, a German U-boat commander and his crew set out on yet another hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic. Over the coming weeks they brave the ocean&#8217;s stormy waters and seek out British supply ships to destroy. But their targets travel in well-guarded convoys. When contact finally occurs, the hunter quickly becomes the hunted, and a cat-and-mouse game begins as the U-boat hides deep beneath the surface of the sea. Soon, claustrophobia becomes an enemy almost as frightening as the depth charges exploding around them.&#8221;<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>As far as World War Two Novels go, Das Boot is one of the most thrilling in my opinion. The author, Lothar Gunther Buckheim was a member of the Kriegsmarine during WW2 and survivor of the U-Boat force.<\/h2>\n<h2>I say &#8220;survivor&#8221; because of the 40,000 men that served on the U-boat&#8217;s, 30,000 did not return home. You read that right. The German U-boat force in WW2 had a 75% casualty rate, the highest of ANY unit during the war, including front line Soviet troops on the Eastern Front and at Stalingrad.<\/h2>\n<h2>I would also highly recommend the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0082096\/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0\">1981 Movie<\/a> directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Jurgen Prochnow in the lead role as the skipper.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28285\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/sub5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;The thrilling wartime novel that inspired Wolfgang Petersen&#8217;s Academy Award-nominated, blockbuster film! Written by an actual survivor of Germany&#8217;s U-boat fleet,\u00a0Das Boot is one of the most exciting stories of naval warfare ever published, a tale filled with almost unbearable tension and suspense. In autumn 1941, a German U-boat commander and his crew set&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[932,1427,475,478,479,1899,1900],"tags":[2685,15520,15521,3122,8172],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}