During the Second World War thirty-two Italian submarines participated, alongside German U-Boats, in the battle of the Atlantic starting from their Betasom base in Bordeaux, they fought against the allied fleets pushing themselves to the American coasts. Antonio Maronari was a sergeant signaller aboard one of those submarines, Enrico Tazzoli, and in this volume he reconstructs the forgotten epic of the clashes that took place in the middle of the ocean. Retracing the actions of war that involved Tazzoli and his crew, the author tells us directly about the long hours of waiting and pursuit underwater, the tension during the battles fought in a sea often upset by storms, joy for the victories and the desperation to discover that “a submarine has not returned to base”. Through the voices of sailors and officers, Maronari takes us into the heart of the submarine, guiding us to the discovery of an emblematic story to understand the vicissitudes of the protagonists who took part in the battle of the Atlantic.
One of the finest World War Two submarine memoirs and the available in English for the first time. A fitting selection for any WW2 or naval library.
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