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...directors of M16 and BND-West German intelligence-share a passion for cactus growing, exploring ways to XPD mealy bugs. Finally, Deighton delivers a telling pronouncement. The well-heeled film producer Max Breslow, a former SS officer, notes a wall of video games in a Los Angeles pizzeria. "U-Boat Commander" and "Blitzkrieg" produce a deafening flood of electronic babble. "This was the war we won, the war that came after the war." Deighton, in top form, wins this one as well...
...lukewarm Nazi, but he was a tough sailor in the service of the Third Reich. As commander of Hitler's lethal submarine force, he masterminded the sinking of 14 million tons of Allied shipping during World War II. It may have been Dönitz's U-boat successes that led a desperate Hitler to designate him as his successor near the end of the war. The admiral subsequently ran the doomed country for 23 days, staving off the inevitable surrender while he operated a hasty sealift through the Baltic, enabling 2 million Germans to escape from...
DIED. Karl Dönitz, 89, grand admiral who commanded Nazi Germany's dreaded U-boat "wolf packs"; of heart disease; in Aumühle, West Germany (see WORLD...
...main threat to U.S. sea lanes would come from the Soviet submarine fleet, which is 25% larger than World War II's Nazi U-boat force. To combat the Soviet subs, the U.S. has devised a complicated strategy involving...
...concede that all is lost. His spirit soars at any sign of trouble on the Allied side; he cheers at reports of labor unrest and food shortages in the U.S. and Britain. He goes on at length about how the Allied forces will be weakened by a renewed U-boat campaign and by the deployment of the Luftwaffe's first jet warplanes. Immersing himself in accounts of the Punic Wars and biographies of Prussia's Frederick the Great, he searches for historical examples of nations that averted disaster at the very last moment and concludes: "There...