num_pages: 308
description: As we staggered back to our course I heard a thud in the wardroom, and on returning to my settee found that Alten had rolled out of his bunk, where he was lying in a drunken stupor, and that he was face downwards, sprawling on the deck, half his face in the broken half of a dirty dish which had fallen off the table whilst I was having tea. As I couldn't let the crew see him like this, I was obliged to struggle and get him back into his bunk. He was like a log and absolutely incapable of rendering me any assistance, though he did open his eyes and mutter once or twice as I lifted him up, trunk first and then his legs. He stank of spirits and I hated touching him. Lord! what a truly hoggish man he is; yet I cannot help envying him his oblivion to these surroundings.
language: English
title: The Diary of a U-Boat Commander
titlecomplete: The Diary of a U-Boat Commander
genres: Military Fiction, History, World War I, Autobiography, Military History, The World, War, Biography Memoir, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 489
publisher: Book Jungle