There he attended the Katharineum, a humanistic secondary school.

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The attack on the royal oak was maybe 10 pages.Really nicely taken care of vintage book! Juli 2017 Sie hören eine Hörprobe des Audible Hörbuch-Downloads.Etwas ist schiefgegangen. Februar 2016 Prien was one of three children of a judge and completed his basic education. Laden Sie eine der kostenlosen Kindle Apps herunter und beginnen Sie, Kindle-Bücher auf Ihrem Smartphone, Tablet und Computer zu lesen.Geben Sie Ihre Mobiltelefonnummer ein, um die kostenfreie App zu beziehen.

In the mayhem that followed, Prien and his crew escaped unnoticed. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.Günther PRIEN is by far the best known U Boot Commander of World War 2 .If not it's top ace .Carefully selected by Admiral DÖNITZ to penetrate the "unpenetrable " Bay of SCAPA FLOW" ,Base of the British Home Fleet ,at the begining of the War(1939 ) he sank the mighty battleship ROYAL OAK and managed to escape without sustaining any damage .He was not liked by his men ,but respected ,while OTTO KRETSCHMER or WOLFGANG LÜTZ were adored :he drove his crew very hard indeed and obtained from them the best they could give .This book is not the best account of the extraordinary feats of Korvetten Kapitän Günther PRIEN(It is written by himself ) but it is sober and well written .The fan of German U Boots like me(As a young Naval Architect and Engineer at the French Navy I personally navigated on these "boots" Type 7 ,Type 9 type 21, after the war and repaired them while serving at the "Kolossal "Submarine Bunker Base in LORIENT and know them from A to Z )should read how Günther PRIEN was finally and quite unhappily sunk by the Depth charges launched by HMS WOLVERINE ,despite his experience ,his cunning and his cleverness .The exact crcumstances of the sinking of his famous U 47 are not well known :some say he was sunk by one of his own torpedoes who circled back and hit the boot .The truth will be known only when the ship shall one day be found on the bottom of the sea,if it has not been blown up completelyAgree with both reviewers below. If you didn't know he was German, you could be reading the memories of a British merchantman or a US submariner.

U-47 returned to Kiel on 15 September having sunk a total tonnage of 8,270 GRT.

The place where the German U-boat sank the British battleship Royal Oak was none other than the middle of Scapa Flow, Britain's greatest naval base! He joined U-47 in December 1938 as Leutnant z. Günther Prien was described after Scapa Flow by a US journalist: Berlin, October 18. Oktober 2012 Ihre zuletzt angesehenen Artikel und besonderen Empfehlungen

"On his sixth war patrol (3 June – 6 July 1940), Prien intercepted Prien was a Wolfpack leader and made the tactical decisions for this patrol line. See.

His crew despised him for it. Suddenly two torpedoes blew the mighty battleship apart and it capsized with the loss of over 800 men. Commander Günther Prien had carried out one of the most audacious sea raids in the annals of naval history. Please try again. Rezension aus den Vereinigten Staaten vom 8. During his career, he gained notoriety among fellow U-boat commanders for exaggerating the tonnage of ships sunk. On 14-10-1939, Prien’s boat penetrated the Royal Navy’s primary base, Scapa Flow and sank the battleship Royal Oak. Rezension aus den Vereinigten Staaten vom 31. Like most memoirs I've found that begin at or before WWI, Prien's reads almost non-partisan.

The enemy isn't derided or insulted: he's just the guy on the other side doing his job as you are. Very much a reproduction war time propaganda book and not a modern warts and all look at Prien, best read with this in mind.Rezension aus dem Vereinigten Königreich vom 28. Endraß was 1WO when Günther Prien made his famous Scapa Flow attack and sank HMS Royal Oak. Bitte versuchen Sie es später noch einmal.Wir konnten Ihre Stimmabgabe leider nicht speichern.