Original Wwii German Photo Book U-boot Submarine Kriegsmarine Royal Navy
ORIGINAL WWII GERMAN NAVAL PHOTO BOOK KRIEGSMARINE U-BOATS AGAINST ROYAL NAVY WITH COPY OF ORIGINAL DUST JACKET! Germany's Submarines - The Horror of England. This item is NOT a facsimile or a reprint, it's a 100% authentic, historical item! I'm offering for sell very, very rare and heavily illustrated book about German U-Boat Fleet during WWII against Royal Navy! This hard to find photo book measures 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches, contains 80 very heavily illustrated pages and was published by Wilhelm Köhler Verlag in 1940.
This 80-page book has glossy pages filled with over 120 photos of German submarines at sea and docked in U-Boot pens, U-Boot crews inside their tight quarters and on deck, submarine crews wearing life vests and testing their weapons during naval exercises, submarine crew daily routine, and even Karl Dönitz (commander of the German submarine fleet) visiting the submarine crew that sunk the British cruiser the HMS Courageous, after their return to shore. There are also several rare photos of the "Victor of Scapa Flow", U-Boot commander captain Günther Prien, on his submarine as well as during an official visit to Berlin.
After his famous victory north of Scotland on 14 October 1939, he was flown to Berlin-Tempelhof and received a hero's welcome and the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. A great addition for every collection of historic German Reich material and a great reference for anyone with an interest in the history of WWII! This 80+ year old book is in very good condition with copy of original dust jacket! ARE YOU INTERESTED TO WWII GERMAN MILITARY LITERATURE? DON'T HESITATE TO ASK ME ABOUT OTHER BOOKS!