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Instead, they became the forebears of the Cold War’s much dreaded hunter killer submarines.Slotted in among the highly technical information in the German U-boat Mussum were some fascinating personal logbook annotations from men who served in these boats. These non-technical, human anecdotes are now being transformed to form the core of this book.Rather than compiling a technical treatise, Hitler’s ‘Wonder’ U-boats makes maximum use of the personal accounts to tell the human story of how this new generation of submarines went to war under the incredibly harsh conditions that prevailed at the time.Accompanied by more than 100 images, this unique operational information will be mirrored with similar reports from conventional snorkel-fitted U-boats, which were at sea at about the same time, to provide a good comparison with earlier types. 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