An Operational Necessity

An Operational Necessity by Gwyn Griffin


ISBN
9781860465963
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
411
Dimensions
151 x 232mm

It is January 5, 1945. A French freighter is torpedoed in the South Atlantic. By the laws of war, the shipwrecked survivors should be beyond further attack. But when the U-boat commander orders that they be machine-gunned he justifies it as an "operational necessity". He believes that the safety of his own boat and crew depends on destroying all traces of the sinking. Only later, at an Allied tribunal after VE day, are the grim facts fully brought to light in a dramatic confrontation between the sole survivor and the captured German officers.

Crisscrossing brilliantly from the agonies of the wounded survivors to the action aboard the hunted submarine, Griffin divides the reader's sympathies as he probes incisively into the paradoxes of human nature, war and its aftermath.
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