2010, ISBN: 9780151014187

Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1999. A beautiful copy. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sh… Mehr…

Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1999. A beautiful copy. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Illustrated with old photos and portraits. List of chapter notes/sources. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original grayish-green cloth, lettered in shiny silver on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "Twenty-two U-boat veterans tell their stories in this collection of their experiences, recorded by the author during several years of travel throughout Germany. While many books have been written about the U-boat war, this is one of the few that focuses on the lives of the submariners, and rarer still is its concentration on the crewmen rather than the officers. Melanie Wiggins interviewed seventeen men of the enlisted ranks, along with five commanders, to take readers into the terrifying world of underwater warfare, where every single crewman made a crucial difference in the fate of his boat. As she searched for and interviewed U-boat men, Wiggins also collected photographs from scrapbooks and archives. She consulted war-era personnel records and secret diaries. Her attendance at a reunion of the crew of U-682 netted a wealth of information, as did her interviews with submarine veterans in Görlitz, in the former East Germany. Her interviews with Admiral Otto Kretschmer just two months before his death and ninety-four-year-old Cdr. Jürgen Wattenberg in Hamburg add important dimensions to the work. Among the individual sagas included are Radioman Hans Burck's description of U-67's attack on oil refineries at Aruba; Fireman 2nd Class Josef Erben's explanation of how his boat, U-128, got stuck on a large rock and had to be hauled free; Battle Station Helmsman Hermann Frubrich's account of U-845's near sinking of the Queen Mary... Herman Wien's description of U-180 transporting Indian anarchist Subhas Chandra Bose to Madagascar. These accounts provide new details about the crews' activities at sea and their experiences in prisoner of war camps." . Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. xv, 253pp., Naval Institute Press, 1999, 5, " In the wake of the news that the 9/11 hijackers had lived in Europe, journalist Ian Johnson wondered how such a radical group could sink roots into Western soil. Most accounts reach back twenty years, to U.S. support of Islamist fighters in Afghanistan. But Johnson dug deeper, to the start of the Cold War, uncovering the untold story of a group of ex-Soviet Muslims who had defected to Germany during World War II. There, they had been fashioned into a well-oiled anti-Soviet propaganda machine. As that war ended and the Cold War began, West German and U.S. intelligence agents vied for control of this influential group. At the center of the covert tug of war was a quiet mosque in Munich radical Islam's first beachhead in the West. Culled from an array of sources, including newly declassified documents, A Mosque in Munich interweaves the stories of several key players: a Nazi scholar turned postwar spymaster; key Muslim leaders across the globe, including members of the Muslim Brotherhood; and naive CIA men eager to fight communism with a new weapon, Islam. A rare ground-level look at Cold War spying and a revelatory account of the West's first, disastrous encounter with radical Islam, A Mosque in Munich is as captivating as it is crucial to our understanding of the mistakes we are still making in our relationship with Islamists today.", Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade, 2010, 6<