Shop

Filled with almost unbearable tension and excitement Das Boot, The Boat, is one of the best novels ever written about men at war, a supreme novel of World War Two and equally famous as an acclaimed film and television drama.

Told with a vivid realism, this is the story of a German U-Boat, her commander and crew, as they embark upon yet another hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic.

Written by a survivor of the U-Boat fleet – of the 40,000 men who served on German submarines, 30,000 failed to return, Das Boot is a story of war told with stunning force that grips from start to finish as this drama of men in battle in the NOrth Atlantic unfolds.