U-Boats Westward!: My Voyages to England 1914-1918 (Great War at Sea) (1931) By Ernst Hashagen
 
This is an exceptional story of German submarine early warfare against the British in World War I.
 
Ernst Hashagen describes in this book his experiences as a submarine commander from 1915 to 1918 in the North Sea and the Irish Sea. The result is an enthralling work on the horrors of war and at the same time the fascination of the then new technology. With the U62 he sank several ships, such as the Ausonia and the Storstad. At the end of the war, he had to hand over his ship in Harwich to the English also this a depressing experience. The book by Hashagen established the long tradition of submarine literature in and after World War II. SM U-62 was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I. U-62 was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic. On 8 March 1917, SM U-62 sank the coal freighter Storstad, the ship that had rammed and sunk the RMS Empress of Ireland ocean liner in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. On 7 August 1918, she torpedoed the French armored cruiser Dupetit-Thouars, which sank with the loss of 13 of her crew.
 
Hard Cover 
247 pages 
In good condition