{"product_id":"u-boat-adventures-melanie-s-wiggins-9781591149583","title":"U-Boat Adventures: Firsthand Accounts from World War II","description":"Twenty-two U-boat veterans tell their chilling stories in this collection of their combat experiences in World War II, recorded by the author during several years of travel throughout Germany. It is one of very few books to examine the lives of the enlisted crew in the infamous submarines. Melanie Wiggins interviewed seventeen men and five of their commanders to take readers into the terrifying world of underwater warfare where every man helped determine the fate of his boat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile tracking down the U-boat veterans, Wiggins came across photographs and secret diaries and gained access to personnel records. A reunion of the U-682 crew and interviews with Admiral Otto Kretschmer two months before his death and the ninety-four-year-old Commander J rgen Wattenberg netted a wealth of information. Among the individual sagas included are Radioman Hans B rck's description of his 1942 patrol to Aruba and Herman Wien's description of U-180 transporting an Indian anarchist to Madagascar.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Melanie S. Wiggins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1591149584\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781591149583\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Naval Institute Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.60d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Melanie S. Wiggins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46867083067647,"sku":"9781591149583","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c53e3e09-c7ba-428f-87d8-3231c38ef2b5.jpg?v=1747453848","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/u-boat-adventures-melanie-s-wiggins-9781591149583","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}