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Quality
Historical details are accurate and blended well with the fictional elements
The arrest places maxs naval career in doubt but with the reluctant intercession of herr von woller and germanys need for wellt... Read More
His new boat is crewed primarily by less enthusiastic sailors and hardcore nazis with the exception of a cadre old kriegsmarine sailors
This novel has more in common with the odyssey of homer
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Tiny details about the ships fixtures and operations abound yet never get in the way of the story but reinforce its credibility
Max brekendorf is an oberleutant assigned to the graf spee having a very responsible job as one of the leading officers on the ship
It would approach allied shipping in its disguise and then seize and sink the enemy shipping
Competitiveness
Although it was not a page turner i found i kept picking up the book to continue the evolution of maxs views
There is a striking contrast between maxs life at sea cruising around for days or weeks trying to find an enemy ship to attack vs
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german, novel, honorable, naval and military. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 93 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 12 2021.
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Mccain says it best in his acknowledgements in the book of sorrow that is the second world war there exists a chapter seldom read the words so faded now to be indecipherable
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I typically gravitate toward militaryhistorical type books such as blind mans bluff shadow divers comrad j and the terrible hours
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Over the years ive been disappointed by novels of this and similar genres in that the character development is one dimensional and the story line is not so believable
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I realize its written from the perspective of our then ww2 enemy however common themes do transcend all military service regardless of the flag sewn on your uniform
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An honorable german tells the story of max a young german naval officer an academy man and patriot from september 1939 through september 1944
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Narrative compression speeds max along from further merchant raiding to eventual submarine service and finally command
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These scenes are soaked in verisimilitude especially the cramped wet shipboard life full of stink monotony storm and danger
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This is not the end of the story for max so to avoid spoilers ill simply say that the final portion of the book though not seabound is carried off with thesame attention to factual detail which characterizes the entire book
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