U-Boat Commander Oskar Kusch: Anatomy of a Nazi-Era Betrayal and Judicial Murder

by Eric C. Rust

To his enlisted men on U-154, Lieutenant Oskar Kusch was the ideal skipper--bright, experienced, successful, caring, tolerably eccentric--and a popular captain who always brought his boat home safely when so many others vanished without a trace. To most of his officers Kusch came across as someone very different--a Nazi-hating intellectual with an artistic bent given to lengthy criticisms of the regime, its leaders and its propaganda, a suspected...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 168247514X
• ISBN13: 9781682475140
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"