by Hans Herlin · Pygmalion/Gérard Watelet · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782857041832
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«Le survivant du Doggerbank» is the historical chronicle by Hans Herlin, published by Pygmalion/Gérard Watelet in paperback (243 pages, in French).
The work reconstructs the fate of the Doggerbank during World War II and the odyssey of its crew after the sinking. Based on documentary evidence, Hans Herlin interweaves the events of naval warfare and the human experience of survival in a testimony about the Atlantic and the endurance of those who lived through it.
Dated 1985, the book includes illustrations and black-and-white photographs. The cover mentions the author's previous work, «Les damnés de l'Atlantique».
Recommended for readers interested in military history, World War II, and stories of survival at sea.
Hans Herlin was a German novelist. Born in Stadtlohn, North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany), he was drafted into the Luftwaffe in World War II and trained as a pilot. In 1944 he fled to Switzerland and lived in France from 1972. He started a writing career as a journalist and worked his way up to become managing editor of Molden, one of Germany's largest publishing houses. In 1961 he wrote a detailed account of the St Louis voyage with 900+ Jewish refugees from Hamburg to Cuba and on to Antwerp, called "Kein gelobtes Land". In 1972 he began writing books full time, and in 1975 published his best known novel Commemorations (Freunde), about "Nazi skeletons in the national closet". Commemorations was published in the United States in 1975 by St. Martin's Press. His books have been published in more than 18 countries.
