Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #803306 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 362 pages

Synopsis
Karl Baumann was born in the Ruhr Valley of Germany during the desperate and tumultuous years of the Great Depression. His pursuit of an occupation is hindered by an abbreviated formal education, unenthusiastic participation in the Hitler youth movement, and the whims of Nazi officials. Baumann's decision to become a sailor at the age of fourteen is both fortuitous and fateful. Baumann comes of age at sea with the German fishing and merchant fleets. He becomes a member of the Kriegsmarine's legendary U-boat force and participates in the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II. He also takes part in the underwater German counteroffensive that attempts to breach the English Channel and attack the Allied armada delivering troops and supplies onto the D-Day landing beaches. Baumann is one of only ten thousand U-boat crewmen who survives the war-and the even smaller fraternity of captured submariners. His personal struggle as a prisoner of war reaches across the Atlantic to a small POW camp located in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.

His unusual experiences at Camp Lyndhurst in Augusta County produce life-transforming consequences he never could have contemplated before his capture and imprisonment in the land of his sworn enemy. Fully researched and footnoted, with fifty illustrations. The Longest Patrol is the captivating story of Karl Baumann's wartime odyssey.

From the Author
The Longest Patrol, A U-Boat Gunner's War is the perfect
companion book to Herbert Werner's 1969 bestseller, Iron Coffins.

The Longest Patrol details an enlisted man's wartime service aboard U-953,
under the command of Oblt.z.See Karl-Heinz Marbach. Werner took command of
U-953 during the summer of 1944 after Marbach--who had gone to Berlin to
receive the Knight's Cross--was unable to return to the surrounded French
port of Brest to resume command of his boat. Thus, the complete and
extraordinary wartime career of U-953 is presented to those who read both
books.

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