The Laughing Cow
METZLER, Jost
A U-Boat Captain's Story. [First English Edition].
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN FULL MOROCCO
Published: Kimber, [1955]
Stock code: 36269
Price: £260.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper diagrams; elegantly bound in navy full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame borders, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
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.