The Wolf. How One German Raider Terrorised Australia And The Southern Oceans In The First World War

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: William Heinemann
Publisher Place: North Sydney
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: First Edition

Description: 366 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The only exception are a few light age markings on the inside page.

Publishers Description: Sent by Germany on a suicide mission to the far side of the world, the warship Wolf was a formidable and ingenious commerce-raider. Her task was to inflict maximum destruction on Allied shipping using all the latest technology of warfare - torpedoes, mines, cannons, smokescreens, wireless receivers, even a seaplane. It was an assignment so secret that she could never pull in to port or transmit any radio signal. In one continual 64,000-mile voyage, the ship caused havoc across three oceans, launched Germanys first direct attacks on Australia and New Zealand and captured over 400 men, women and children. Surviving on fuel and food plundered from other ships, the Wolf became a world in miniature as her 350-strong crew and their prisoners crowded together in an improbable survival story. Drawn from eyewitness accounts, declassified government files and unpublished diaries and correspondence discovered during five years of research, this is the story of the Wolfs voyage, one of the most remarkable but little-known episodes of the First World War. An extraordinary adventure story, The Wolf is also a portrait of a world undergoing profound transformation.

ISBN: 9781741666243