Iron Coffins; A Personal Account of the German U-Boat Battles of World War II by Herbert A. Werner - 1969

New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston , 1969 Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York. 1969. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; light bumping to head and tail. DJ: Good; chipping with small missing pieces at head tail, and tips; missing piece at top of rear panel; scattered paint reside. Black cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. Maps as endpapers. 364 pp 8vo. The author fought for 4 years as an officer on five German U-Boats in the Atlantic, North Sea, and Mediterranean. Battling an incompetent leadership in Germany the U-Boats were never used effectively by the German high command and never learned to counter the advanced by Allied forces to counter the U-Boats leading to an extremely high death rate for U-Boat crews and commanders. A clean presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.