Das Boot

[mikepara]

Just bought a book called Der Film Das Boot Ein Journal by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim. 1st Edition Germany 1981. A fantastic thick book bursting with pics of the film and filming etc. Like the film it is in German.( Alas I cannot read German, The only drawback to a great find!)

A could recommend this book on the pictures alone. Maybe filmloveguy or /and Prien already own a copy if not your missing out.

 

[Martinis at 8]

If you like to read a good book on boats and their use during the Cold War, try Blind Man's Bluff. It's excellent.

M8

 

[Diamondback]

+1 on BMB. Red Star Rogue's pretty interesting also, trying to figure out what the deal was with that Russian boomer CIA salvaged...

Some others:
Adm. I.J. Galantin: Take Her Deep!
Paul Schratz: Submarine Commander
Richard O'Kane: Wahoo O'Kane was XO of Wahoo under "Mush Morton"--his transfer to CO of his own boat (a successful one also) may have saved his life, as a great many of our best WWII subdrivers are still out there on Eternal Patrol.

Need to check out O'Kane's Clear the Bridge! and Adm. Fluckey's Thunder Below! sometime...