The Memoirs of Karl Doenitz: Ten Years and Twenty Days

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The story of the last world war, as told by Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz himself. His memoir covers his early career with submarines in the First World War and follows both his successes and failures through the Second World War, with great detail on the way the U-boat campaign was waged, as told by the man who invented U-boat tactics. Doenitz includes details of the U-boat campaigns during the Second World War as well as the opinions, ideas and commentary on the period. Of particular interest are the comments regarding British and American conduct during the war. An important social document, and an invaluable source for any student of the last war. He became the last Fhrer of Germany after Hitler's suicide in May 1945 and the book's subtitle, Ten Years and Twenty Days, is a direct reference to the time Karl Doenitz spent in Spandau Prison having been convicted of war crimes following trial at Nuremberg. Selling Points .An honest account by a key protagonist of the war, .The German viewpoint from the highest level of command, .Descriptions of military conferences with Nazi leaders ILLUSTRATIONS: 8 pages of plates

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His place in the history books has been determined by his prosecution of the Battle of the Atlantic, and it is untimately a testament to the quality of his writing that it is almost impossible not to sympathise with his fustrations, even when we are so painfully aware of the malevolent cause he fought for. - Military History Monthly

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KARL DOENITZ was commissioned into the Imperial German Navy in 1910. He became convinced of the war-winning potential of U-boats and conducted a battle for the Atlantic that the Allies only just won. He succeeded Grand Admiral Raeder as commander-in-chief of the navy.