An operational necessity
by Gwyn Griffin
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Open LibraryAbout this book
It is January 5, 1945. A French freighter is torpedoed in the South Atlantic. By the laws of war, the shipwrecked survivors should be beyond further attack. But when the U-boat commander orders that they be shot, he justifies it as "an operational necessity." He believes that the safety of his own boat and crew depends on destroying all traces of the sinking. Only later, at an Allied tribunal after V-E Day, are the grim facts fully brought to light in a dramatic confrontation between the sole survivor and the captured German officers.
Themes & subjects
FictionSubmarineWorld War, 1939-1945Naval operationsSubmarines (Ships)Fiction, general
First published 1967About the author
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