Memoirs: Ten Years And Twenty Days

About this book

Commander of the U-boat fleet Supreme Naval Commander and finally Hitlers successor in the last days of the Third Reich Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz (18911980) has been condemned as a Nazi and praised as one of the most brilliant and honorable military leaders of the war. His "wolfpack" tactics resulted in a handful of U-boats sinking 14.5 million tons and nearly deciding the Battle of the Atlantic. Sentenced to ten years at the Nuremberg Trials Doenitz wrote his memoirs upon his release. In a clear firm style he discusses the planning and execution of the U-boat campaign; the controversial sinking of the Laconia; Americas "neutrality" before its entry into the war; the Normandy invasion; the July 1944 bomb plot; his encounters with Raeder Gring Speer Himmler and Hitler; as well as his own brief tenure as the last Fhrer. Doenitzs invaluable work allows the reader to view the war at sea through the periscopes eye.