Death in the Baltic : The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff

from Kunikov

It's hard to know what to make of this book. The subject is well enough known for those familiar with WWII. For those who are not, reading about the event changes nothing in the grand scheme of things. Furthermore, there's no new information provided for greater analysis or contextualization. The...

from Yells

Interesting book on a topic that has not received much attention in either academia nor popular media in the English-speaking world. Indeed the book exposes tragedy that the years 1941 to 1945 was the peoples of Eastern Europe including ethnic Germans who were uprooted in their millions as German...

from smasler

A mess of storytelling. The eyewitness accounts were jumbles and hard to follow. I actually gave up trying to follow who was who to just get the gist of what they were saying. Almost stopped reading when Ms. Prince gave the speed of the ship as "Knots per Hour." It made me want to read something ...

from octafoil40

Perhaps It was too much to expect a book's entire 201 pages be dedicated to the actual war time torpedo sinking of a passenger ship during WW II --- especially since the waring parties themselves did not care to publicize the event. The author attempts to fill the pages with the many individual s...

from surly

I became concerned when in the second paragraph of the introduction, the author said that the most information she could find about sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was '...footnotes in World War Two histories...' Since a book on this very subject, 'The Cruelest Night' by Christopher Dobson, John ...