U-Boat Owners' Workshop Manual

ALAN GALLOP is an author, journalist and public relations consultant. His books include Buffalo Bill's British Wild West (2001), Children of the Dark (2002), Mr Stanley I Presume (2004), Time Flies: Heathrow at 60 (2005), Subsmash (2007), The Martians are Coming! The True Story of Orson Welles' 1938 Panic Broadcast (2011). He lives in Middlesex.|• Unique insight into the design, construction and operation of the feared World War 2 German Type VIIC U-boat • Includes detailed photographs inside the last preserved Type VIIC boat and original technical drawings of the boat’s construction and its operation • U-995 is the centrepiece at the German Naval Memorial at Laboe near Kiel, Germany|An insight into the design, construction and operation of the feared World War 2 German Type VIIC U-boat. The German Type VIIC U-boat, scourge of Allied shipping convoys during the Second World War, was the workhorse of the German U-boat force. With some 568 Type VIIs in use between 1940 and 1945 it was a potent fighting vessel that could hunt for long periods in the far reaches of the western and southern Atlantic. Centrepiece of the Haynes U-boat Manual is the sole surviving example of a Type VIIC U-boat, U-995, which is on display at the German Naval Memorial near Kiel in northern Germany.

ALAN GALLOP is an author, journalist and public relations consultant. His books include Buffalo Bill's British Wild West (2001), Children of the Dark (2002), Mr Stanley I Presume (2004), Time Flies: Heathrow at 60 (2005), Subsmash (2007), The Martians are Coming! The True Story of Orson Welles' 1938 Panic Broadcast (2011). He lives in Middlesex.|• Unique insight into the design, construction and operation of the feared World War 2 German Type VIIC U-boat • Includes detailed photographs inside the last preserved Type VIIC boat and original technical drawings of the boat’s construction and its operation • U-995 is the centrepiece at the German Naval Memorial at Laboe near Kiel, Germany|An insight into the design, construction and operation of the feared World War 2 German Type VIIC U-boat. The German Type VIIC U-boat, scourge of Allied shipping convoys during the Second World War, was the workhorse of the German U-boat force. With some 568 Type VIIs in use between 1940 and 1945 it was a potent fighting vessel that could hunt for long periods in the far reaches of the western and southern Atlantic. Centrepiece of the Haynes U-boat Manual is the sole surviving example of a Type VIIC U-boat, U-995, which is on display at the German Naval Memorial near Kiel in northern Germany.