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Identifier: diaryofuboatcomm00kingrich (find matches)
Title: The diary of a U-boat commander
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: King-Hall, Stephen, 1893
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & co
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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73 C oo a; U-boat Commander 113 first magnitude, which, flouting all thelaws of meteorology, had somehow foundits way to the English Channel; butthe engineer explained to me that, as Ihave already stated, the low atmo-spheric pressure in the boat was due tothe conning-towTr hatch being shut down. I have discovered that Von Weissmanis a martyr to sea-sickness—all day hehas been lying down as white as a sheetand subsisting on milk tablets and sipsof brandy; yet such is the mans in-flexibility of will that he forces himselfto make a tour of inspection right roundthe boat every six hours, night and day.It is this will to conquer which has madeGermans unconquerable, though Comethe four corners of the world in arms against us, as the great poet says. We are, of course, keeping watch frominside the conning tower; it is, at allevents, dry, but as to seeing anythingone might as well be looking out througha small glass window from inside abreakw^ater ! To bed till 4 a.m. ^p ^S ^i S(C «;C 8 1

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