Review: good read
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 16, 2013
The mechanics of good writing were fine accepting the plot.  I wanted to read about a good German U-boat captain who was trapped in Hitler's armed services.  The character was killed early in the book.  I never got to know him except through the eyes of an American soldier bent on avenging the death of his war buddy.  Some parts of the book moved along at a good pace, but, in whole, the book was slow and too long.  There were many glowing reviews of this book which were misleading to me.  The name of the U-boat was real, but it was not the boat about which the author wrote.  Many characters were real, but some characters only had the names of actual people.  I spent some time in the encyclopedia checking out those names.I thank the author for writing the book.  He covered a lot of territory and tackled some interesting topics.