Germanys first shattering blow against Britain in the Second World War was the often-forgotten sinking of the battleship HMS Royal Oak at Scapa Flow on 14 October 1939.

The crew of the U-boat including the comander of U-47, Kapitanleutnant Gunther Prien instantly became heroes.

Delve into the first-hand account of Gunther Prein from his best-selling autobiography that was published a few months after.

With the huge controversy of the events of the sinking, Preins account was labelled by survivors as completely inaccurate.

Dive into this search for the truth & make your own mind up, how accurate really was Preins account of the sinking?

With H J Weaver travelling across Europe & beyond to find the answers, exclusive interviews with survivors & witnesses allows us to investigate every detail of the events of the fateful night.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781912476626
• Author: H J Weaver
• Publisher: Birlinn Origin
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 170
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 1.6cm



















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Sinking the battleship HMS Royal Oak in the Royal Navy's home anchorage, with the loss of more than 800 of her crew, was Germany's first shattering blow against Britain in the 1939-45 war. Within six weeks the long-standing German dream of breaching the defences of Scapa Flow had been achieved. Germany claimed the sinking for the submarine U-47, commanded by Lt. Gunther Prien. Prien & his crew became instant folk heroes, lauded, interviewed & exploited to extract the maximum glory from their deed. A few months later, Prien's autobiography, Mein Weg Nach Scapa Flow, was published & sold an astonishing 750, 000 copies. However, there are also Royal Oak survivors who, while accepting that their ship was torpedoed, say: ' Prien & his crew can't ever have seen the inside of Scapa Flow because Prien's story is almost totally at variance with the truth.' Four books & dozens of articles have been written on what is now generally accepted as one of the greatest submarine exploits of all time. Yet nobody has managed to sift fact from falsehood & reconcile the apparently irreconcilable German & British stories. The author has interviewed Royal Oak survivors, members of U-47's 1939 crew, Lt. Prien's widow & members of the firm which published his autobiography. His quest for the truth led through Engl&, Northern Irel&, Wales, Scotl&, Orkney, Norway, West Berlin, Cologne, Freiburg & even distant Amman. He has patiently investigated every point of controversy until he was able to set down a documented, definitive account of the Royal Oak naval disaster. It was previously published by Cressrelles Ltd. ...

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