Books
CODE NAME CAESAR: The Secret Hunt for U-boat 864 During World War Two by Jerome Preisler with Kenneth Sewell places the submarine's mission in its full historical context as part of a longstanding, formal program of technology and personnel transfers between Germany and Japan. The book contends that the January 9 raid on Bergen by the 617 "Dambuster" Squadron and 9 Bomber Squadron was deliberately intended to destroy U-864 while it was in Bergen's fortresslike Bunker Bruno for repairs--and that downed British airmen were killed in violation of the Geneva Conventions while the attack was in progress. It also uses primary source materials to dispel the oft-repeated historical inaccuracy that HMS Venturer was diverted to intercept U-864 as the result of ULTRA intercepts, and reveals for the first time the critical part MI-6 and Norwegian coast watchers played in tracking and targeting the submarine.
Read more about this topic: German Submarine U-864
Famous quotes containing the word books:
“It is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the things, and there are more books about books than about any other subject: we do nothing but write glosses about each other.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“When the Day of Judgement dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards—their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble—the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when he sees us coming with our books under our arms, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.””
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)