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Item specifics
- Condition
- Title
- Submarine U-137
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- An Operational Necessity
- Item Height
- 232mm
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Topic
- Books, World War II
- Item Width
- 152mm
- Item Weight
- 620g
- Number of Pages
- 480 Pages
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It is January 5, 1945. A French freighter is torpedoed in the South Atlantic. By the laws of war, the shipwrecked survivors should be beyond further attack. But when the U-boat commander orders that they be shot, he justifies it as an operational necessity. He believes that the safety of his own boat and crew depends on destroying all traces of the sinking. Only later, at an Allied tribunal after V-E Day, are the grim facts fully brought to tight in a dramatic confrontation between the sole survivor and the captured German officers.Crisscrossing brilliantly from the agonies of the wounded survivors to the action aboard the hunted submarine, Gwyn Griffin divides the reader's sympathies as he probes incisively into the paradoxes of human nature and of war and its aftermath. Before his early death, Griffin was hailed as a storyteller to surpass his contemporaries Alistair MacLean and Hammond Innes. The proof is here, in a novel that ends with one of the most harrowing courtroom scenes in modern fiction.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13
9781860465963
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94846741
Product Key Features
Book Title
An Operational Necessity
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books, World War II
Publication Year
1999
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
232mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
620g
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Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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