Stealthy and deadly, the searing blast of a U-boat's torpedo was often followed by hours of creeping terror as the hunter became the hunted, and Allied anti-submarine forces rained down tons of high explosives, testing the skill and endurance of everyone aboard. Written by a survivor of the true events, U-859 is a novel, but it is also an eye-witness account of what it was like to be on the receiving end of Allied explosives, and the mind-numbing terror of being trapped in the pitch blackness of a sunken submarine.
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Stealthy and deadly, the searing blast of a U-boat's torpedo was often followed by hours of creeping terror as the hunter became the hunted, and Allied anti-submarine forces rained down tons of high explosives, testing the skill and endurance of everyone aboard. Written by a survivor of the true events, U-859 is a novel, but it is also an eye-witness account of what it was like to be on the receiving end of Allied explosives, and the mind-numbing terror of being trapped in the pitch blackness of a sunken submarine.
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Von Ned Middleton
Arthur Baudzus served as an electrician on board U-859 during WW2 and was one of only 20 survivors when that vessel was sunk. Today he is a retired marketing manager who lives in Australia.
In his novel "U-859" this author draws upon his real-life experiences of 60 years ago in order to provide the reader with a realistic account of what life was truly like aboard a U-Boat at time of war.
Let me honest, I do not review "novels" - preferring to leave fiction to those who know the subject best. Nevertheless, I did find this book to be a good read. I only wish he had used a fictional number for his fictional U-Boat. In using the real number of the vessel on which he actually served he has, for me at least, blurred the lines between fact and fiction.
But don't let that comment deter you from a good read.
NM
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Von Chris
Ein sehr gelungenes Buch zum Thema U-Boot Krieg.
Sehr spannend und authentisch wird die wahre Geschichte
von U-859 mit einigen "Seemannsgarn" garniert.
Gut!
Sehr spannend und authentisch wird die wahre Geschichte
von U-859 mit einigen "Seemannsgarn" garniert.
Gut!
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Fascinating Story
27. Dezember 2003
Von George Simms
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This is a great story, told by someone who was actually there. You can tell that certain characters are made up, such as the British lieutenant who is a prisoner aboard U-859 on her long voyage to the Far East. Yet even this clearly fictional character contributes, providing a sounding board for the English-speaking German sailors, who otherwise would never dare say some of the things they need to say. And the German sailors, even with their names changed, are very real. You won't be too far into the story before you figure out which of them would go on to write this book.
According to the back cover the author, Arthur Baudzus, was aboard the real U-859 during this voyage. The scene in the after torpedo room, when the U-boat has been torpedoed and is laying in two pieces on the bottom of the Malakka Straits, is all the more authentic in that it obviously speaks of what happened to the author. Here is a man who has experienced something that killed thousands of his fellow U-boat sailors, yet somehow managed to live to tell of it. And though fact and fiction mingle in this novel, there is plenty here to interest the U-boat history buff.
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A mixture of Fact and Fiction.
24. September 2004
Von Ned Middleton
- Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com
Arthur Baudzus served as an electrician on board U-859 during WW2 and was one of only 20 survivors when that vessel was sunk. Today he is a retired marketing manager who lives in Australia.
In his novel "U-859" this author draws upon his real-life experiences of 60 years ago in order to provide the reader with a realistic account of what life was truly like aboard a U-Boat at time of war.
Let me honest, I do not review "novels" - preferring to leave fiction to those who know the subject best. Nevertheless, I did find this book to be a good read. I only wish he had used a fictional number for his fictional U-Boat. In using the real number of the vessel on which he actually served he has, for me at least, blurred the lines between fact and fiction.
But don't let that comment deter you from a good read.
NM
In his novel "U-859" this author draws upon his real-life experiences of 60 years ago in order to provide the reader with a realistic account of what life was truly like aboard a U-Boat at time of war.
Let me honest, I do not review "novels" - preferring to leave fiction to those who know the subject best. Nevertheless, I did find this book to be a good read. I only wish he had used a fictional number for his fictional U-Boat. In using the real number of the vessel on which he actually served he has, for me at least, blurred the lines between fact and fiction.
But don't let that comment deter you from a good read.
NM
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An Outstanding U-boat story by someone who really knows what they're talking about!
16. März 2006
Von Dave Avis
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This author lived just such a voyage and escaped from a sunken U-boat. Although the novel is fiction, it really is based on his personal experiences and survival from a sunken u-boat. I would hope that this author would write more books like this!
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