Memoirs: Ten Years and Twenty Days - Softcover

Doenitz, Grand Admiral Karl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1591142156 ISBN 13: 9781591142157

Publisher: Naval Institute Press, 2012

Synopsis

These celebrated memoirs are the story of WWII, as told from the perspective of the German Navy's Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz. Credited with inventing U-boat tactics, he recounts his experiences over ten years as a U-boat commander and his twenty days as President of Germany. Explaining the Nazi regime as a product of its time, he argues that he was not a politician and thus not morally responsible for the regime's war crimes. He criticizes dictatorship as a fundamentally flawed form of government and blames it for much of the Nazi era's failings.

About this title

About the Author:

Karl Doenitz was commissioned into the Imperial German Navy in 1910 and was the architect of the U-boat war for the Atlantic. After the death of Adolf Hitler, Doenitz was named President and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces.

Review:

His place in the history books has been determined by his prosecution of the Battle of the Atlantic, and it is untimately a testament to the quality of his writing that it is almost impossible not to sympathise with his fustrations, even when we are so painfully aware of the malevolent cause he fought for. - Military History Monthly

About this edition

• Publisher: Naval Institute Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1591142156
• ISBN 13: 9781591142157
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 536