Teddy Suhren, Ace of Aces : Memoirs of a U-Boat Rebel.
Title:
Teddy Suhren, Ace of Aces : Memoirs of a U-Boat Rebel.
Author:
Shuren, Teddy.
ISBN:
9781783839551
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (249 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Ranks -- Glossary -- Translator's Preface -- 1 Battleships and the GRÖFAZ - How long would the war last? -- 2 Why Teddy? - Family destinies - Recruit and Cadet - A cousin in Samoa -- 3 Mürwik - A disastrous Rosenmontag - 'I intend to resign' - Belated revenge -- 4 Another world - 1WO in the Atlantic - War: 'Stop at once!' - 'Take heart, take heart' -- 5 Pinned down on the seabed - A Supershot - My 200,000 tons and the Knight's Cross -- 6 No Kommandant under twenty-five - Happy Birthday, U-564 - The Abwehr is after me - Rum, and off to war -- 7 Oak Leaves and Käpitanleutnant - Schnapps with Hitler - Across the pond - Scheherezade: cherchez la femme! -- 8 On the track of the enemy - The fourth night - The diesel-fire - Battle formation in the periscope! -- 9 In Columbus' waters - Between tropical magic and the wet abyss - The captain's swords - A nasty accident -- 10 Ashore after my fifteenth patrol- From Reichkanzlei to Obersalzberg - 'Submarine Swing' with Eva Braun - Bormann: 'Suhren, I like you more by the minute' -- 11 What do you mean, how many submarines have I got? - Attack on the green table - With 27th (Tactical) Flotilla - 'Boats to the Front, boats to the Front?' -- 12 Führer of Submarines (Norway) - Jutta-Beatrix and the mother-in-law - HQ Narvik - Cowardice in the face of the enemy? -- 13 Belated projects - Surrender - 'Missions-Hotel' and imprisonment - The Warrior's Return -- Postscript: A summary of Teddy Suhren's post-war career, by Helmut Herzig, President of the Teddy Suhren Marinekameradschaft, Zweibrücken -- Appendix: Speech at the First Post-War Reunion of U-boat men, Hamburg, 1954, as published afterwards in the souvenir booklet of the reunion -- Index.
Abstract:
Reinhard 'Teddy' Suhren fired more successful torpedo shots than any other man during the war, many before he even became a U-boat commander. He was also the U-boat service's most irreverent and rebellious commander; his lack of a military bearing was a constant source of friction with higher authority. Valued for his good humour and ability to lead, his nickname was acquired because he marched like a teddy-bear.Despite his refusal to conform to the rigid thought-patterns of National Socialism, his operational successes protected him, and he found himself accepted in the highest circles of power in Germany. He was one of the lucky third of all U-boat crewmen who survived the war, largely because his abilities led to a senior land-based command. He was also one of the first to publish his reminiscences, his account being typically forthright - its German title, Nasses Eichenlaub, suggesting that although he was decorated with the Oak Leaves, he was always in hot water. He died in 1984 but interest in his career was revitalized by the discovery of photographs documenting one of his operations in U 564, published with great success in 2004 as U-Boat War Patrol by Lawrence Patterson.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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