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Red Star Under the Baltic: A Soviet Submariner in World War II
by
Victor Korzh
Soviet version of the classic German U-boat story Das Boot Graphic and humane record of service on a submarine
Submarines were uninviting enough, with dank, claustrophobic conditions and little hope of escape if disaster struck, and the relatively shallow waters of the Baltic only compounded the dangers. That's where Soviet submariner Viktor Korzh served, hunting and sinki
...morePaperback, 194 pages
Published
March 30th 2009
by Stackpole Books
(first published January 2005)
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Jean-Vincent
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Highly recommended for anyone who has more than a passing interest in WWII submarine warfare.
As James Calvert wrote in his memoirs, in a submarine, many things can go wrong, and it is only he who can rise above the mechanical complexity of this weapon system that can begin to think about war. A submarine is no place to be seeing shadows, as Calvert puts it.
Well, Victor Korzh's memoirs are certainly a tribute to this sort of sayings, because the least one can say is that...more
As James Calvert wrote in his memoirs, in a submarine, many things can go wrong, and it is only he who can rise above the mechanical complexity of this weapon system that can begin to think about war. A submarine is no place to be seeing shadows, as Calvert puts it.
Well, Victor Korzh's memoirs are certainly a tribute to this sort of sayings, because the least one can say is that...more
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