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Operational Necessity, An (Paperback)

by Gwyn Griffin (Author)
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  • Paperback: 411 pages
  • Publisher: Harvill P. (Feb 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 186046596X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1860465963
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.3 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,320,199 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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When a German U-Boat captain orders the machine gunning of the survivors of a torpedoed freighter, he does so to safeguard his own ship and crew. There follows a relentless hunt for the submarine and finally a post-war military tribunal, in which the captain faces the freighter's only survivor.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A taut legal drama woven into an often agonizing war story, 24 Sep 1999
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The story wastes no time in getting to the action that immediatly thrusts the reader into an agonizing moral dilemma; to save his boat could the u-boat captain be justified in his actions which involved destroying the wreckage of a recently-torpedoed freighter on which the suvivors were taking refuge. The answer should only be no, through the remainder of his fateful voyage, a tense struggle for survival against an overwhelmingly powerful enemy, the author passes the reader's sympathies from the wretched survivors to the u-boat crew, in particular the captain and first officer. As the doomed voyage continues to final surrender, captivity and finally, when the full details of the crime are accidently discovered, trial, the author's moral point is juggled between captain, first officer and sole survivor of the freighter. A war story in which the reader knows where the author's sympathies lie and in which the moral point, though clear, is clouded by the characters of those involved.
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