Sound of Hunger

This book was donated to the Collection by Mr. Hubert Ross. The price quoted is our estimate of its value. The book is a true story which centres on two German brothers, Erich and Georg Gerth, both U-Boat commanders, and the First World War and its aftermath. Their lives and careers as Navy officers are set against the military, political, and social environment of their times. Carefully nurtured views of national innocence and guilt are uncovered, discredited truths and war crimes of both the Allies and Germany are discussed. The book takes its title from the thrust of the war, not in the trenches, but in the deliberate attempts by both sides to starve each others civilian populations.