Das Boot
Lothar-Gunther Buchheim(Author)
Wolf Kahler(Speaker)
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Published on 6. May 2004
Audio
Audio cassette
978-0-7528-6673-4 (ISBN)
Description
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-an-mouse game begins, where the increasing claustrophobia of the submarine becomes an enemy just as frightening as the depth charges that explode around it. Written by a survivor of the U-boat fleet - of the 40,000 men who served on German submarines, 30,000 never returned - Das Boot is a psychological drama merciless in its intensity, and a classic novel of World War II.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Dimensions
Height: 140 mm
Width: 109 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Duration
Dauer: 360 min
Weight
242 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7528-6673-4 (9780752866734)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Lothar-Gunther Bucheim was born in 1918 and grew up in Saxony. When the war broke out he joined the navy and served on mine-sweepers, destroyers and submarines - on the last, as an official navy correspondent. Wolf Kahler was the voice of the first engineer in the English-dubbed version of the feature film of Das Boot and played a U-boat captain in Britannic. Stage work includes the National Theatre, the Freehold Company and Steven Berkoff. Films: Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Remains of the Day and Barry Lydon. He has done extensive TV and radio work.