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PublisherFree Press

ISBN-101416576118

ISBN-139781416576112

eBay Product ID (ePID)92492939

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Book TitleWolf : the Mystery Raider That Terrorized the Seas During World War I

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMilitary / General, Modern / 20th Century, Military / World War I, General

Publication Year2011

GenreHistory

AuthorPeter Hohnen, Richard Guilliatt

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight13.4 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Reviews"To the short list of must-read'nautical adventures, add Guilliatt's and Hohnen'sThe Wolf,a chronicle worthy of Conrad.'?I thought I was a student of military and naval history, but until I read this powerful and engrossing tale'of tragedy, survival and heroism I had no idea that'such an epic'journey'had occurred. Taut, poignant, and evocative,?you can taste'the salt wind in your face and smell the blood in the water, but you can't put the book'down."—Robert Drury, co-author,Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue, "The authors' thoroughly researched and convincing study makes clear that good modern naval history is more than just a true account of strategy or battles, for it deals not only with ships but with men." -- U.S. Naval Institute Book Review, "The authorsrs" thoroughly researched and convincing study makes clear that good modern naval history is more than just a true account of strategy or battles, for it deals not only with ships but with men." --U.S. Naval Institute Book Review, "The Wolfis an extraordinary work of storytelling and scholarship. From the very first pages, Guilliatt and Hohnen snap this ship's dramatic journey into brilliant focus, and you feel for these people, get to know them, and you root for them to survive. This is history brought vividly to life. This otherwise unknown story of the Great War has found its great chroniclers."?—Doug Stanton, author ofHorse SoldiersandIn Harm's Way, "The Wolfis one of the strangest, and strangely thrilling, war-at-sea adventures I have ever read. It captures the excitement but also the moral ambiguity of war, with intriguing characters cast upon a vast stage."— Evan Thomas,Newsweek, author ofSea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945andJohn Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy, "The authorse(tm) thoroughly researched and convincing study makes clear that good modern naval history is more than just a true account of strategy or battles, for it deals not only with ships but with men." -- U.S. Naval Institute Book Review

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SynopsisOn November 30, 1916, an apparently ordinary freighter left harbor in Kiel, Germany, and would not touch land again for another fifteen months. It was the beginning of an astounding 64,000-mile voyage that was to take the ship around the world, leaving a trail of destruction and devastation in her wake. For this was no ordinary freighter--this was the Wolf, a disguised German warship. In this gripping account of an audacious and lethal World War I expedition, Richard Guilliatt and Peter Hohnen depict the Wolf 's assignment: to terrorize distant ports of the British Empire by laying minefields and sinking freighters, thus hastening Germany's goal of starving her enemy into submission. Yet to maintain secrecy, she could never pull into port or use her radio, and to comply with the rules of sea warfare, her captain fastidiously tried to avoid killing civilians aboard the merchant ships he attacked, taking their crews and passengers prisoner before sinking the vessels. The Wolf thus became a huge floating prison, with more than 400 captives, including a number of women and children, from twenty-five different nations. Sexual affairs were kindled between the German crew and some female prisoners. A six-year-old American girl, captured while sailing across the Pacific with her parents, was adopted as a mascot by the Germans. Forced to survive on food and fuel plundered from other ships, facing death from scurvy, and hunted by the combined navies of five Allied nations, the Germans and their prisoners came to share a common bond. The will to survive transcended enmities of race, class, and nationality. It was to be one of the most daring clandestine naval missions of modern times. Under the command of Captain Karl Nerger, who conducted his deadly business with an admirable sense of chivalry, the Wolf traversed three of the world's major oceans and destroyed more than thirty Allied vessels. We learn of the world through which the Wolf moved, with all its social divisions and xenophobia, its bravery and stoicism, its combination of old-world social mores and rapid technological change. The story of this epic voyage is a vivid real-life narrative and simultaneously a richly detailed picture of a world being profoundly transformed by war.