![]() Listened to the Audiobook from LibraVox narrated by Mark F. Odd that is should persist so long-it was published in 1920-with the story behind it still so mysterious.more What the heck is it? By the end, though, with the two main stories of the book ended and loose ends tied up, few will doubt in which category to place this book. Which makes the book something of a mystery, too. When the diarist is not busy mining harbors or being nearly depth-charged to death by British cruisers-always entertaining-he's falling in love with a woman in Belgium, who refuses his pleas in an extremely confusing way. Which is one reason I read it straight through. And no material in any edition I have seen clears up any of this confusion. He appears nowhere in it, unless as the editor who signs himself Etienne. King-Hall did in fact exist-he was at one time a member of Parliament-but his connection to this so-called diary is in no way clear. The author is sometimes listed as Karl von Schenk, the captain of said U-boat, and sometimes as William Stephen Richard King-Hall, a British naval officer and peer. ![]() Check out the literature surrounding it-no clues. He appears no No one seems to know if this story is fact or fabrication. No one seems to know if this story is fact or fabrication. A particularly human and intriguing touch is given to the book by the Author's very frank account of his mad infatuation for a beautiful girl of his own country who was inextricably involved in his incredible exploits and adventures on the high seas.more ![]() It is, however, a story so thrilling and sensational that we have no hesitation in offering it as it stands to the public, kept so long in ignorance by the necessary evil of a rigid censorship. of this amazing diary of a German U-Boat Commander has fallen into our hands under somewhat unusual and mysterious circumstances, the name of the writer being withheld for reasons which will be readily apparent to all who read his astounding experiences. It is, however, a story so thrilling and sensational that we have no hesitation in offering it as it stands to The M.S.
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