I´ve just finished to read James Follett´s book "U-700". It is a great book, a exciting and very well written history. Somebody read it? What part of that book (about the main subject) is real history?
Well, the book is about a German submarine (U-700) that surrender to a British Hudson plane in 1941(!). There´s no photos in the book.
nothing even of the captured crew ? ! well that's a sad shame. Does the book cover the German crew via interviews during the capture or afterwards ? E
No U-boat with the number U-700 was ever commissioned into the Kriegsmarine. However a Lockheed Hudson of 289 Squadron RAF "captured" the German submarine U-570 in the Atlantic on the 27 August 1941. This boat later became the British submarine HMS Graph. I suspect the book is a work of fiction based on this event [ 12. December 2002, 11:25 AM: Message edited by: redcoat ]
Yes Redcoat, that´s the history of the book, that information is in there. I think the author just renamed the u-boat, I don´t know why. But the book makes a discription of the acts of part of the crew submarine and of the Hudson in the time of surrender. In the book, that submarine was particularly interesting to the Brits because of the "Wotan" (?) Magnetic Torpedoe Ogive. And after, in North England, is written about the tries of destruction of the submarine, because of the torpedoe, by Kriegsmarine and ... well, I would like to know if that part of the book (the destruition of the submarine) is a true history. PS.: Sorry for my poor english language... [ 12. December 2002, 01:00 PM: Message edited by: Rodrigo ]
No problems with your English, Rodrigo ! You may find this link interesting : - http://www.submariners.co.uk/index.html?http://www.submariners.co.uk/articles/u570.html
Hello Rodrigo, you are right it is a book about the U-570. James Follett had to change the number of the U-boat, and the names of certain people in the book for legal reasons. He explains his actions on this web-page http://www.jamesfollett.dswilliams.co.uk/u571%20lies%20damm%20lies.htm and he gives the true story of its capture and of the events after Thanks for bringing this to my attention, its very interesting [ 12. December 2002, 02:53 PM: Message edited by: redcoat ]
Ye, i have this one, though its been a few years since i read it. I have it in paperback, and i was not sure if it was just a fictios novel that may have been based around real events.
Thanks Martin and Redcoat for information. I´m glad to know that a book with so many interesting histories was written based in real facts. It is better than just a novel, because it´s history. I like books like that. I´ll try to find the real history to put on my website.
Indeed, thanks to you Rodrigo for raising this sunject. I've just read the website referred to by Redcoat and found it really interesting. Another of those 'obscure little WWII stories' that I knew nothing about, until now....
