Movies and Films
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RE: Good books and movies?
Posted by:
Ian Stapley
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Date: March 24, 2001 03:33PM
<HTML>I can recommend the following:
Books - U Boats under the Swastika (J Malmann Showell)
Enigma U Boats (same)
Type VII U boats (unfortunately I cannot recall the author)
Wolf Packs (Time/Life)
U Boat Tankers (again the author escapes me but is a good account of
Type XIV milk cow class and other U Tankers)
Films - Das Boot (the series or the Director\'s cut) Admittedly it is longer than 90 minutes - the director\'s cut is roughly 3 hours long, but for technical detail and generally the overall \"feel\" of life in a U Boat this film is in a class of its own. Also check out the making of sequence at the end of the Directors cut version. There is also a Das Boot museum in Germany (& a web site) containing the original set, models etc.
U571 OK this is a subject for conjecture but see it for yourself & form your own opinion.
Hope this is useful.
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Books - U Boats under the Swastika (J Malmann Showell)
Enigma U Boats (same)
Type VII U boats (unfortunately I cannot recall the author)
Wolf Packs (Time/Life)
U Boat Tankers (again the author escapes me but is a good account of
Type XIV milk cow class and other U Tankers)
Films - Das Boot (the series or the Director\'s cut) Admittedly it is longer than 90 minutes - the director\'s cut is roughly 3 hours long, but for technical detail and generally the overall \"feel\" of life in a U Boat this film is in a class of its own. Also check out the making of sequence at the end of the Directors cut version. There is also a Das Boot museum in Germany (& a web site) containing the original set, models etc.
U571 OK this is a subject for conjecture but see it for yourself & form your own opinion.
Hope this is useful.
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Subject | Written By | Posted |
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Good books and movies? | zach | 02/11/2001 12:33PM |
RE: Good books and movies? | Kris | 02/11/2001 02:00PM |
RE: Good books and movies? | Ian Stapley | 03/24/2001 03:33PM |