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Prepadova lod 16

Skutecny pribeh legendarni nemecke valecne lodi

By Hoyt, Edwin P.
(Raider 16)
1999, Beta - Dobrovsky a Sevcik Praha 4, Kvetnoveho vitestvi 332
ISBN 808627845X
Hardcover, 210 pages, 14 photos
book is in Czech language

Descripton: On 19 December, 1939 the German admiralty took over the new warship Raider 16 (originally named Atlantis). Her crew included 21 officers and 328 seamen under command of the skilled captain Rogge. The book describes the story of this ship and her crew, details of the sinking of many merchant ships, Rogge's decisions and reasons for the tactics he used, and the sinking of Raider 16 by HMS Devonshire and the rescue of her crew by Eckermann's U-A and Merten's U-68.

Oddychove citanie o zivote na prepadovej lodi v prvej faze 2.SV kedy este hladinove plavidla nemeckeho namornictva mali sancu na uspech. V knihe su opisane okolnosti potopenia jednotlivych lodi a nakoniec aj samotnej prepadovej lode, ako ich zachytil jej kaitan Bernhard Rogge a tiez rozne osudy trosecnikov a vojnovych zajatcov.

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