Iron Coffins Author:Herbert Werner Herbert A Werner fought for four bitter death-defying years (1941-45) as an officer of five German U-boats. In IRON COFFINS, Werner takes the reader with him into the German submarines on which he and his comrades fought their historic battle. He traces the triumphant years of 1941 and 1942 in which the German U-boats threatened to strangle Engl... more »and; the crucial campaign of 1943 in which the German submarines were hunted down and virtually exterminated; and the final years of destruction in 1944 and 1945 in which only Werner's skil, daring, and luck efnabled him to survive and tell his story.« less