An Operational Necessity Author:Gwyn Griffin Set in South Atlantic during World War II. The killing of shipwrecked persons who have taken refuge in lifeboats is forbidden, declared the Supreme Court of the German Reich. At the same time certain laws may be exempted as an operational necessity. From a U-boat machine-gun attack on the helpless survivors of a torpedoed freighter to an Allied ... more »tribunal meeting in the rubble of a German city after VE Day."« less