author
Freiherr von E. (Edgar) Spiegel
b. 1885
Known for a bestselling First World War U-boat memoir, this German naval officer turned his wartime experience into vivid, autobiographical sea writing. He later also served as a diplomat, giving his career an unusual reach beyond the page.
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The Adventures of the U-202: An Actual Narrative
by Freiherr von E. (Edgar) Spiegel
About the author
Born in 1885, he is generally identified as Edgar Freiherr von Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim, a German naval officer, writer, and later diplomat. Reference works and biographical listings place his life from 1885 to 1965, with his birth in Padrojen and his death in Bremen.
As a writer, he is best remembered for marine war books drawn largely from personal experience. German-language biographical sources describe these books as mainly autobiographical, and note that his best-known work was Kriegstagebuch U 202 from 1916, a submarine war diary that became especially successful.
Because the byline used in older editions can appear in shortened forms such as “Freiherr von E. Spiegel,” readers may see him cataloged under several closely related names. The available sources consistently connect that author credit to Edgar von Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim.