Black Flag: The Surrender of Germany's U-Boat Forces. by Paterson, Lawrence - 2009

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New York, NY: Zenith Press, 2009. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. VG/G, used, vii-xii, 196pp. Interior clean no marks, pages near bright. Binding tight. Shelf rubbing to dj, no chips, a small tear to the bottom edge of the lower near the fore-corner.

On the eve of Germany's surrender in May 1945, Grossadmiral Karl Dnitz commanded thousands of loyal and active men of the U-boat service. Still fully armed and unbroken in morale, enclaves of these men occupied bases stretching from Norway to France, where cadres of U-boat men fought on in ports that defied besieging Allied troops to the last. At sea U-boats still operated on a war footing around Britain, the coasts of the United States and as far as Malaya. Following the agreement to surrender, these large formations needed to be disarmed—often by markedly inferior forces—and the boats at sea located and escorted into the harbours of their erstwhile enemies. Neither side knew entirely what to expect, and many of the encounters were tense; in some cases there were unsavoury incidents, and stories of worse. For many Allied personnel it was their first glimpse of the dreaded U-boat menace and both sides were forced to exercise considerable restraint to avoid compromising the terms of Germany's… Read More

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