{"product_id":"wolfpack-uboats-at-war-19391945","title":"Wolfpack: U-Boats at War  1939-1945","description":"\u003cp\u003eWolfpack is the first major colour-illustrated book to capture life on board a U-boat. The text  drawing on letters  diaries  journals  memoirs  prose  poetry and proverb  relates the mundane and the routine  the dramatic and the heroic  fear and resilience as experienced by every man from Kapitanleutnant to Mechaniker. Bringing these words brilliantly to life are 130 black and white and 115 colour photographs  elegant paintings  drawings and line art  including: several colour photographs of the U-995  the only surviving example of the commonly deployed VIIC U-boat; portraits of the ace U-boat commanders; crew members at work  at ease  on shore leave and  in some very powerful photographs  as prisoners of the US Coast Guard; U-boat pens at Bordeaux  La Pallice  Saint Nazaire  Lorient and Brest; Allied airmen and aerial bombardments and Allied convoys under attack; Donitz himself  his uniform  his headquarters and the ornate blue and gold baton taken from him upon his surrender in May 1945; U-boat weapons; propaganda art from both world wars; memorabilia and ephemera  including a German advertisement in the New York Times warning passengers against travelling on the Lusitania and the medals of Commander Gunther Prien  who sank the British battleship Royal Oak in October 1939; and a graphic map of the Atlantic region showing the devastating losses in ships and men  wrought by and on the U-boats in one short period of the war. Wolfpack is a vivid and brutally realistic portrait of the lives of the men who fought and died beneath the surface of the Atlantic in what was  perhaps  the most crucial battle of World War II.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964131405877,"sku":"ByrdShop_1557508550","price":48.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781557508553.jpg?v=1770450286","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/wolfpack-uboats-at-war-19391945","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}