Author: Robertson, Terence,
Title: THE GOLDEN HORSESHOE - The Wartime Career of Otto Kretschmer, U-Boat Ace.
Description: Frontline, Barnsley, 2011, trade paperback, 210pp, frontis portrait, 12pp half tone photo ills., photo pictorial upper wrapper, originally published in 1955 this issue contains a new foreword by the respected German naval historian Jurgen Rohwer (first included with the 2003 edition), who worked with Kretschmer after WW2 while establishing the details of 'who sank what' for the British navy, this is the classic account of u-boat Captain Otto Kretschmer of U-99, active in the Battle of the Atlantic during the 'happy time' from October 1939 until March 1941 when the u-boat was sunk by the destroyers HMS Walker (Capt. Donald Macintyre) and HMS Vanoc, and further account of his continuance of hostilities whilst a prisoner of war, fine,

Keywords: war ww2 navy germany u-boat kretschmer atlantic u-99 destroyer walker vanoc a/s


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