Interesting history, but somewhat flawed | Shadow Voyage: The Extraordinary Wartime Escape of the...

A great book, highly recommended! | Shadow Voyage: The Extraordinary Wartime Escape of the Legendary SS Bremen | Peter A. Huchthausen

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	• Shadow Voyage: The Extraordinary Wartime Escape of the Legendary SS Bremen Peter A. Huchthausen Wiley, 2005 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

extraordinary story

great read. story is told in a very interesting manner. this little know subject is brought forth with great storytelling

Interesting history, but somewhat flawed

Overall the book is a good read, even though in part it might be considered an historical novel, as much of the dialogue, although based on memoirs, seems rather made up; it does have the right 'feel' to it however.
But there are a number of niggling errors, these among them. The stacks of the Bremen were raised considerably in 1930, so in 1939 could not be considered squat.
The Conte di Savoia never held the Blue Riband, and the Rex held it only westbound.
The Spanish Civil War began in July 1936, so there could not have been riots about German involvement in March or July 1935. The Hakenkreuz had already been adopted by then.
The Hunting Salon was an auxiliary/private dining room next to the main restaurant on E deck, not on A deck. It had no stuffed animal heads as did many American smokers, nor any Gobelin (French) tapestries. Gobelin is a generic German term for any scenic tapestry, and these were all of German design and make.
Historians of all stripes should be more careful.

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A great book, highly recommended!

In short, this is an extremely well written book about a very little-known story. The escape of the Bremen back to Germany at the outbreak of WWII was a remarkable feat of seamanship, and this book relates the story extremely well. Great book!

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Extraordinary Bremen

Shadow Voyage tells the story of the escape of the Bremen. The story is interesting and well told. We may not have heard this story before, but there are many stories of WWII that we have not heard or that have vanished into the murkiness of war. It is quite extraordinary to have a story such as this, which is on the surface only of interest to employees of Norddeutscher Lloyd and their relatives, told 60 years later by an American. Thank you, Peter Huchthausen, for bringing these stories to light. Better maps would help us understand exactly where the locations are; thus the reduction of a star here. On a personal note: a crewmember, a purser,from the Bremen was having a picnic at my grandparents house in suburban NY when he was called to return to the ship for the imminent departure that evening. No one ever heard from this fellow again, nor had any idea what happened to him or to the ship. Thanks to this marvelous book, we at least know that he made it home, however briefly. This is a story about ordinary people in extraordinary times.

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Great story of a great ship

This was an exiting and little known story about one of the great liners of the 1930's. If only it had a happier ending!

A fast-paced, little-known story of danger at sea on the eve of World War II

On the sweltering evening of August 30, 1939, the German luxury liner S.S. Bremen slipped her moorings on Manhattan's west side, abandoned all caution (including foghorns, radar, and running lights), and sailed out of New York Harbor, commencing a dramatic escape run that would challenge the rules for unrestricted warfare at sea. Written by naval historian Peter Huchthausen, Shadow Voyage tells the epic adventure of the Bremen's extraordinary flight to Germany, which became a life-and-death race with British warships and submarines intent on intercepting her. Revealing new details from naval archives, Huchthausen's riveting narrative captures the great courage and magnanimity of the Royal Navy, the cunning and intricate planning of the Germans, and the tension and ambiguity that preceded the outbreak of World War II.

Captain Peter Huchthausen, U.S. Navy, Retired (Hiram, ME), has had a distinguished career, serving at sea and on land as a Soviet naval analyst and as a naval attach? in Yugoslavia, Romania, and the Soviet Union. He is now a consultant and writer, author of the bestselling Hostile Waters and October Fury (0-471-41534-0).

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