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I was sitting on the conning tower smoking a cigarette. Then the splash of a wave soaked it. I tried to draw another puff. It tasted loathsome and frizzled. Then I became angry and threw it away. I can see my reader's surprised expression. You had expected to read a serious U-boat story and now such a ridiculous beginning! But I know what I am doing. If I had once thrown myself into the complicated U-boat system and used a bunch of technical terms, this story would be shorter and more quickly read through, but you would not have understood half of it | The Adventures of the U-202 by E. Spiegel 1 The Adventures of the U-202 by E. Spiegel The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of the U-202 by E. Spiegel This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Adventures of the U-202 An Actual Narrative Author E. Spiegel Release Date May 2 2010 EBook 32216 Language English The Adventures of the U-202 by E. Spiegel 2 Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF THE U-202 Produced by Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive American Libraries. THE ADVENTURES OF THE U-202 AN ACTUAL NARRATIVE BY BARON SPIEGEL VON UND ZU PECKELSHEIM CAPTAIN-LIEUTENANT COMMANDER OF THE U-202 NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1917 Copyright 1917 by THE CENTURY CO. Copyright 1917 by JOHN N. WHEELER INC. Published February 1917 by arrangement with New York World PREFACE I was sitting on the conning tower smoking a cigarette. Then the splash of a wave soaked it. I tried to draw another puff. It tasted loathsome and frizzled. Then I became angry and threw it away. I can see my reader s surprised expression. You had expected to read a serious U-boat story and now such a ridiculous beginning But I know what I am doing. If I had once thrown myself into the complicated U-boat system and used a bunch of technical terms this story would be shorter and more quickly read through but you would not have understood half of it. Seriousness will come bitter and pitiable seriousness. In fact everything is serious which is connected with the life on board a submarine and none of it is funny although in fact it is the hundred small inconveniences and peculiar conditions on a U-boat which make life on