More v plamenech

By Hubacek, Milos
(The sea in flames)
2001, Paseka, Praha
ISBN 807185350X
Hardcover, 318 pages
book is in Czech language

Descripton: Biography of four big German warships which took part in the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II. Because the main enemy of the German fleet was the British Royal Navy, the book is also about encounters with British warships and mariners defending merchant ships supplying the British Isles and the Soviet Union with vitally important materiel. Many times the destiny of thousands of men on board seemingly indestructible armoured vessels was influenced chance events. For mariners imprisoned between steely plates there remained only two options: to win or to die.

Biografie ctyr nemeckych velkych lodi ucastnicich se za druhe svetove valky boju v Atlanitku a v severnich vodach. A protoze hlavnim protivnikem nemeckeho lodstva bylo britske Kralovske namornictvo, jde i o setkani s britskymi lodmi a namorniky, kteri svadeli tvrde boje o zajisteni bezpecnosti namornich cest, po nichz prichazely na britske ostrovy zivotne dulezite suroviny, i cest po nichz pluly na sever konvoje s dodavkami pro Sovetsky svaz. Mnohdy osudy tisicu muzu na palubach zdanlive neznicitelnych mohutnych obrnencu ovlivnovaly nahody a pro námorniky uveznene mezi pancerovymi platy zbyvaly jen dve moznosti: vitezstvi, nebo smrt.