The Wolf; How One German Raider Terrorised Australia and the Southern Oceans in the First World War

William Heinemann, North Sydney, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. preface by authors, four appendices, acknowledgements, references, bibliography and index. The text is illustrated with 16 pages of black and white photography between paid 176 and 177. Colour photographic cover with black and ochre coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. The story of one of the most extraordinary wartime sagas of the 20th century, let alone the First World War. " Sent by Germany on a suicide mission to the far side of the world, the Wolf was a formidable and ingenious commerce-Raider. Their task was to inflict maximum destruction on Allied shipping using all the latest technology of warfare -- torpedoes, minds, cannons, smokescreens, wireless receivers even a seaplane. It was an assignment so secret that she could never pull into a port or transmit any radio signal. In one continual 64,000-mile voyage lasting 15 months, the ship caused havoc across three oceans, launched Germany's' only direct attacks on Australia and New Zealand in the great War 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 prisons crowded together in an improbable survival story." -- From the rear panel blurb. A little rubbing to the book corners and light age toning of the text block edges and pages. This is the first Australian edition. Size: Trade Paperback. (11), XII - XIII, (5), 2-366, (2) pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Military & Warfare; Germany; WW I; ISBN: 1741666244. ISBN/EAN: 9781741666243. Inventory No: 0128211. . 9781741666243