Large maps of the Atlantic also appear inside front and back covers, appendix and glossary, no index. 364 pages with 76 black and white photos, one map and a U-boat diagram. 1969 Hardback (Book Club) edition with dust jacket.
Commander Herbert Werner served on five submarines from 1941 to 1945 and came to the United States in 1947. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. An excellent book that tells the real story of what it was like to serve on board a fighting U-boat––and live through the experience. Read reviews and buy Iron Coffins - by Herbert A Werner (Paperback) at Target. The author traces the triumphant years during 1941 and ‘42––the crucial campaigns of 1943 and the final years of destruction in 1944 and ‘45. As an ensign, then executive officer, and finally a captain, Werner was one of the few who survived to tell the true story of the U-boat war. During his five years with the German Navy in World War II, author Herbert Werner served aboard five different U-boats U-557, U-612, U-230, U-415 and U-953. In the early 1970s the term gained some familiarity among English speakers after the publication of a memoir of the same name written by Herbert Werner, a former U-boat commander.“IRON COFFINS” A personal account of the German U-boat battles of World War II.
The wide difference in estimates may result from the fact that many U-boat men died in air attacks while ashore, or were killed after being re-assigned to Army units during the last months of the conflict. The truth of the term is evident in the fact that between 28,000 and 39,000 U-boat men died in the War, representing a casualty rate between 75% and 90%.
(Herbert Albert) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Iron coffins : a U-boat commander's war, 1939-1945 by Werner, Herbert A. The term is descriptive and makes the desired point, although during the war submarines were made of steel, not iron. Iron coffins : a U-boat commander's war, 1939-1945 : Werner, Herbert A. This term reflected the submariners' awareness that submarines are usually sunk while they are submerged, so that the crew of a sunken submarine is interred forever in the hull at the bottom of the sea. (Herbert Albert) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. Iron Coffin was a rueful term coined by German submarine (" U-boot" or " U-boat") crews to describe their vessels during World War II. Iron coffins : a U-boat commander's war, 1939-1945 : Werner, Herbert A.
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