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The "O Tannenbaum" Affair

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 6, 7, 8
Page count: 56

Author

Theodore
Taylor

Appeared in

Rogue Wave and Other Red-Blooded Sea Stories

Story Summary

A British office working for the Office of Naval Intelligence, uses subtle but brutal psychological tactics when interrogating a German U-boat captain as to the secret method used by German submarines to evade detection by U.S. destroyers.