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1 online resource (249 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Ranks; Glossary; Translator's Preface; 1 Battleships and the GRÖFAZ -- How long would the war last?; 2 Why Teddy? -- Family destinies -- Recruit and Cadet -- A cousin in Samoa; 3 Mürwik -- A disastrous Rosenmontag -- 'I intend to resign' -- Belated revenge; 4 Another world -- 1WO in the Atlantic -- War: 'Stop at once!' -- 'Take heart, take heart'; 5 Pinned down on the seabed -- A Supershot -- My 200,000 tons and the Knight's Cross; 6 No Kommandant under twenty-five -- Happy Birthday, U-564 -- The Abwehr is after me -- Rum, and off to war |
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7 Oak Leaves and Käpitanleutnant -- Schnapps with Hitler -- Across the pond -- Scheherezade: cherchez la femme!8 On the track of the enemy -- The fourth night -- The diesel-fire -- Battle formation in the periscope!; 9 In Columbus' waters -- Between tropical magic and the wet abyss -- The captain's swords -- A nasty accident; 10 Ashore after my fifteenth patrol- From Reichkanzlei to Obersalzberg -- 'Submarine Swing' with Eva Braun -- Bormann: 'Suhren, I like you more by the minute' |
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11 What do you mean, how many submarines have I got? -- Attack on the green table -- With 27th (Tactical) Flotilla -- 'Boats to the Front, boats to the Front?'12 Führer of Submarines (Norway) -- Jutta-Beatrix and the mother-in-law -- HQ Narvik -- Cowardice in the face of the enemy?; 13 Belated projects -- Surrender -- 'Missions-Hotel' and imprisonment -- The Warrior's Return; Postscript: A summary of Teddy Suhren's post-war career, by Helmut Herzig, President of the Teddy Suhren Marinekameradschaft, Zweibrücken |
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Reinhard 'Teddy' Suhren fired more successful torpedo shots than any other man during the war, many before he even became a U-boat commander. He was also the U-boat service's most irreverent and rebellious commander; his lack of a military bearing was a constant source of friction with higher authority. Valued for his good humour and ability to lead, his nickname was acquired because he marched like a teddy-bear. Despite his refusal to conform to the rigid thought-patterns of National Socialism, his operational successes protected him, and he found himself accepted in the highest circles of pow |
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Appendix: Speech at the First Post-War Reunion of U-boat men, Hamburg, 1954, as published afterwards in the souvenir booklet of the reunionIndex |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Atlantic Ocean -- Naval operations -- Submarine -- Personal narratives, German
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Naval operations, German -- Biography
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns.
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World War, 1939-1945.
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Submarine captains.
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Military campaigns
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Military operations, Naval -- German
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Military operations, Naval -- Submarine
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Submarine captains
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Atlantic Ocean
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Germany
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Biographies
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Personal narratives
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781783839551 |
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1783839554 |
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1848326130 |
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9781848326132 |
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1306863422 |
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9781306863421 |
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