Otto Kretschmer: The Life of the Third Reich's Highest Scoring U-Boat Commander by Lawrence Paterson
English | January 30th, 2018 | ISBN: 1591146976 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 19.66 MB
Otto Kretschmer was only in combat from September 1939 until March 1941 but was Germany's highest-scoring U-boat commander sinking 47 ships totaling 274,333 tons. This definitive work details his personal story and the political backdrop from his earliest days. Aged 17 he spent 8 months studying literature at Exeter University where he learned to speak English fluently. The following year, on 1 April 1930, he enlisted as an officer candidate in the Weimar Republic's small navy.