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The Royal Oak Disaster

by - Snyder, Gerald S.
1976, Presidio Press
ISBN 0891410635
261 pages
"The first complete account of the most controversial tragedy in the Royal Navy's History - the Scapa Flow Raid of U-47." Reconstructs the raid from planning stage to execution. Includes many interviews with survivors from both sides. Some good photos. A few technical mistakes in describing the U-boat. (My favorites: stating that the electric motors were used on the surface and the diesels underwater; and that the VIIC carried 4 torpedoes in the stern and one in the bow.) But the interesting part of course is the survivor interviews.


Translations of this title include:

Husarenstück in Scapa Flow

by - Snyder, Gerald S.
(The Royal Oak Disaster)
Die Versenkung der Royal Oak durch Günther Prien
1981, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, München
ISBN 3453013972
Paperback, 317 pages, 41 photos, 5 appendices, 1 map
"The first complete account of the most controversial tragedy in the Royal Navy's History - the Scapa Flow Raid of U-47." Reconstructs the raid from planning stage to execution. Includes many interviews with survivors from both sides. Some good photos. A few technical mistakes in describing the U-boat. (My favorites: stating that the electric motors were used on the surface and the diesels underwater; and that the VIIC carried 4 torpedoes in the stern and one in the bow.) But the interesting part of course is the survivor interviews.
 


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