Das Boot
8 best books like Das Boot (Lothar-Günther Buchheim): The Cruel Sea, Run Silent Run Deep, Cross of Iron, HMS Ulysses, The African Queen, The Sand Pebbles, South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram', 1910-12, Iron Coffins: A Personal Account of the German U-boat Battles of World War II
| Author | Nicholas Monsarrat |
| ISBN | 1580800467 |
“[T]hat was the way the war was going; the individual had to retreat or submerge, the simple unfeeling pair of hands must come to the fore. The emphasis was now on the tireless machine of war; men were parts of this machine, and so they must remain, till they fulfilled their function or wore out. If, in...
| Author | Edward L. Beach |
| ISBN | 0304364657 |
An American equivalent of Das Boot, this gripping, bestselling novel of submarine warfare inspired a well-known Hollywood film starring Burt Lancaster and Clark Gable. Set in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the tension-filled story focuses on an American submarine captain given orders...
| Author | Willi Heinrich |
| ISBN | 0304352411 |
Cross of Iron is the thrilling story of a German platoon cut off far behind Russian lines in the second half of World War II. A resourceful and cynical commander somehow manages to coax his men through the bitter hand-to-hand fighting in forests, trenches and city streets until eventually they regain...
| Author | Alistair MacLean |
| ISBN | 0006135129 |
The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers of action and suspense – an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War II. Now reissued in a new cover style.The story of men who rose to heroism, and then to something greater, HMS Ulysses takes...
| Author | C.S. Forester |
| ISBN | 0316289108 |
A classic story of adventure and romance - the novel that inspired the legendary movie starring Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart
A fast-moving tale and a very good yarn...Mr Forester again and again proves himself a master of suspense - New York Times Book Review
As World War...
| Author | Richard McKenna |
| ISBN | 1557504466 |
Recommended reading as part of the Chief of Naval Operation's Professional Reading Program!
This now-classic novel by Richard McKenna enjoyed great critical acclaim and commercial success when it was first published in 1962. The winner of the coveted Harper Prize, it was on the New York Times...
| Author | Roald Amundsen |
| ISBN | 1841582069 |
At last we got away, on October 19. The weather for the past few days had not been altogether reliable; now windy, now calm - now snowing, now clear: regular spring weather, in other words... With this matter of fact sentence begins one of the most famous journeys in all exploration - Amundsen's conquest...
Iron Coffins: A Personal Account of the German U-boat Battles of World War II
This book is an incredible true story about a U-boat captain who survived the entire war, one of about two dozen to do so. I had previously read Das Boot by Lothar-Günther Buchheim many times, which describes the German point of view of the Battle of the Atlantic circa late 1941. Iron Coffins completed...
