(Dhawunirodha) (Epub) Das Boot

By Lothar-G?nther Buchheim

It is autumn, 1941, and 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 must brave the stormy waters of the Atlantic in their mission to seek out

and destroy British supply ships. But the tide is beginning to turn against the

Germans in the war for the North Atlantic. Their targets now travel in convoys,

fiercely guarded by Royal Navy destroyers, and when contact is finally made the

hunters rapidly become the hunted. As the U-boat is forced to hide beneath the

surface of the sea a cat-and-mouse game begins, where the increasing

claustrophobia of the submarine becomes an enemy just as frightening as the

depth charges that explode around it. Of the 40,000 men who served on

German submarines, 30,000 never returned. Written by a survivor of the U-boat

fleet, Das Boot is a psychological drama merciless in its intensity, and a classic

novel of World War II.