
The Laughing Cow
METZLER, Jost
[First English Edition].
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
Published: Kimber, [1955]
Stock code: 36269
Price: £42.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper diagrams, small contemporary signature on front paste-down; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrup faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a bright, clean, crisp copy.
With 6pp publisher's advertisement at end. Metzler commanded U-69 from her launch until mid-1941 (encompassing the best of the 'Happy Time'). He gives a clear account of his experiences (with some valuable photographs) and a briefer note of the vessel's subsequent career and sinking in February 1943. One of the scarcer U-boat command memoirs. Enser, p.429; Law 1722.