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Winston Churchill was to say later: "The only thing that really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril." With good reason. Under Karl Dönitz, one of the most brilliant strategists of World War II, Nazi wolf packs came horrifyingly close to severing Britain's lifelines in 1940 and again in 1943. The Battle of the Atlantic (Dial/James Wade; 342 pages; $14.95) is based largely on newly released documents from British, U.S. and German archives, as well as on eyewitness accounts. The fascinating history exhumes and examines the political squabbles and secret deals on land...
...nature of the underwater hero. Neptune, Jules Verne's Captain Nemo, even Marvel Comics' Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner, have all shared the brooding yet tempestuous personality often associated with fallen angels. The modern heir of these model wetheads is the submarine captain, particularly the German U-boat commander of World War II. With his beard, shabby sweater, and a little help from Hollywood, he cuts a theatrical figure that falls somewhere between cruel, cynical buccaneer and psychiatrist on summer vacation...
...Barrister. The guns were bad-captured Russian Krukas, the worst in Europe-and so was the navigator of the freighter transporting them. Missing his rendezvous off Tralee and surrounded by the Royal Navy, the skipper scuttled his ship, arms and all. Casement, who had been landed from a German U-boat, was ignominiously arrested by a local constable...
...lived in a Dominican monastery in Bolzano, awaiting a chance to flee to Argentina where he had stored a fortune in currency, precious stones and gold, much of which had been extracted from the teeth of gas-chamber victims. Bormann, said Farago, had consigned the hoard to Argentina by U-boat before the war ended. The fugitive Nazi finally reached Argentina in 1948 through the assistance of Eva Perón, who used contacts in the Vatican to get him a passport issued under the ironical Jewish name of Eliezer Goldstein. For making Bormann feel at home in Argentina, Farago...
Such criticism may dwindle in the future. Last month the society's senate elected a new president, Physicist Reimar Lüst, a modest young (49) scientist whose easygoing and informal manner should fit in with the Young Turks ambitions to speed the democratization process. A U-boat engineering officer during World War II, Lüst was captured after his submarine was hit. Sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in Texas, he began attending courses given by some P.O.W. professors. Lüst soon developed a liking for physics, which he continued to study in both Germany...