Enemy Submarine. The Story of Gunther Prien, Captain of U-47. Written from Prien’s Diaries and from Sailing with him in Action
( Gunther PRIEN ) FRANK, Wolfgang
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: William Kimber, [1954]
Stock code: 52025
Price: £55.00
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; pale green cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Covers the sinking of ROYAL OAK at Scapa Flow and Prien's subsequent career in the Atlantic. Combines translations of parts of two German books, the main one of which was issued in 1942. The German wartime view is balanced by passages from Roskill. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.429; Law 1714.