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The Wolf

The Wolf

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

by Peter Hohnen and Richard Guilliatt
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/07/2009

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"July 1917- the First World War is about to enter its fourth horrendous year and ships are mysteriously disappearing off Australia and New Zealand as a young Australian woman named Mary Cameron sails with her husband and daughter across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Sydney. Less than a thousand miles from Sydney, a black-hulled freighter appears out of the vast blue emptiness, and Mary and her daughter rush to the deck to greet her. Suddenly, two hinged iron sections of the freighter's bulwarks drop down to reveal she is bristling with guns. She is in fact the German warship the Wolf, and the Cameron family are about to find themselves captive on one of the century's most extraordinary wartime sea voyages. Sent by Germany on a suicide mission to the far side of the world, the 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
ISBN:
9781741666243
9781741666243
Category:
Military history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-07-2009
Publisher:
Random House Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Dimensions (mm):
233x154x26mm
Weight:
0.46kg

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