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Das Boot (Revised)
Das Boot (Revised) | Lothar Gunther Buchheim
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It is autumn, 1941, and a German U-boat commander and his crew set out on yet another hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic. Over the coming weeks they must brave the stormy waters of the Atlantic in their mission to seek out and destroy British supply ships. But the tide is beginning to turn against the Germans in the war for the North Atlantic. Their targets now travel in convoys, fiercely guarded by Royal Navy destroyers, and when contact is finally made the hunters rapidly become the hunted. As the U-boat is forced to hide beneath the surface of the sea a cat-and-mouse game begins, where the increasing claustrophobia of the submarine becomes an enemy just as frightening as the depth charges that explode around it. Of the 40,000 men who served on German submarines, 30,000 never returned. Written by a survivor of the U-boat fleet, "Das Boot "is a psychological drama merciless in its intensity, and a classic novel of World War II.
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Das Boot (Revised) | Lothar Gunther Buchheim
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It was accidental that my significant other and I stumbled across the Director‘s Cut of „The Boat“ on TV late Friday evening. We were both tired and didn‘t plan to finish watching the 3-hour-screenplay – but we did.

For me it was the third or fourth time. Every single time I afterwards think of re-reading the book. But then I also remember that I like the film better and how I struggled with the book and its technical details as a teenager.