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The WOLF how one German raider terrorized the allies in the most epic voyage of WWI
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On november 30, 1916 a freighter left harbor in Kiel, Germany, and would not touch land for another fifteen months. But 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. Yet to maintain secrecy, she never could pull into port or use her radio, and to comply with the rules of sea warfare her captain fastidiousley tried to avoid killing civilians aboard the merchants ships he attacked, taking her crews and passengers prisoner before sinking the vessels.
The Wolf thus became a huge floating prison, with more than 400 captives from twenty-five different nations. Forced to survive on food and fuel plundered from other ships, and hunted by the the combined navies of of five Allied nations, the Germans and their prisoners became to share a common bond. The will to survive transcended enmities of race, class, and nationality. 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.
On november 30, 1916 a freighter left harbor in Kiel, Germany, and would not touch land for another fifteen months. But 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. Yet to maintain secrecy, she never could pull into port or use her radio, and to comply with the rules of sea warfare her captain fastidiousley tried to avoid killing civilians aboard the merchants ships he attacked, taking her crews and passengers prisoner before sinking the vessels.
The Wolf thus became a huge floating prison, with more than 400 captives from twenty-five different nations. Forced to survive on food and fuel plundered from other ships, and hunted by the the combined navies of of five Allied nations, the Germans and their prisoners became to share a common bond. The will to survive transcended enmities of race, class, and nationality. 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.
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