Raiders of the Deep
"This 1928 bestseller by journalist Lowell Thomas was the first American account of German submariners to offer a sympathetic, behind-the-scenes look at the men who prowled the English Channel, the Atlantic, and the Mediterranean in U-boats. Widely known for his news dispatches from the battlefields of World War I, Thomas was immediately successful with this portrait of undersea warfare, which revealed details of the new technology." "Thomas allows his subjects to tell their stories in their own words, rendering an interesting look at the challenges of life aboard these early submarines. Their oral histories tell of Walther Schwieger's sinking of the Lusitania, of the seven U-boat raiders sent to lay mines across the Atlantic and sink merchant ships off the coast of the United States, and of other trials and accomplishments."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved