A review by paulataua
Das Boot by Lothar-Günther Buchheim

4.0

Submarine war novels are not usually my kind of thing and this one was possibly a couple of hundred pages too long, but ‘Das Boot’ was worth reading. It is always so easy to understand the horror of war on an intellectual level, but ‘Das Boot’ takes you further and engages you in the terror of war. You actually get to feel the claustrophobia, the desperation, and the feeling of helplessness under fire. I never watched the movie, but may do now.