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050 00 $aD582.W6$bG85 2010
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100 1 $aGuilliatt, Richard,$d1958-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97032954
245 14 $aThe Wolf :$bhow one German raider terrorized the Allies in the most epic voyage of WWI /$cRichard Guilliatt and Peter Hohnen.
250 $a1st Free Press hardcover ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFree Press,$c2010.
300 $axi, 382 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Black Raider -- $g2.$tSuicide Ships -- $g3.$tWartime Secrets -- $g4.$tEdge of the World -- $g5.$tJuanita's War -- $g6.$tThe Enemy Within -- $g7.$tMessage in a Bottle -- $g8.$tScandal and Mutiny -- $g9.$tA Speck on the Ocean -- $g10.$tEnd Run -- $g11.$tStranded -- $g12.$tHonor and Defeat -- $gAppendix I.$tThe Wolf's Specifications -- $gAppendix II.$tList of Ships Sunk and Mined by the Wolf -- $gAppendix III.$tList of the Wolf's Crew -- $gAppendix IV.$tList of the Wolf's Prisoners.
520 1 $a"On 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 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."--BOOK JACKET.
610 20 $aWolf (Steamship)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009017599
650 0 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xNaval operations, German.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113794
650 0 $aQ-ships$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWarships$zGermany$xCamouflage$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPrison hulks$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xPrisoners and prisons, German.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113833
650 0 $aPrisoners of war$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aCivilians in war$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xPolitical aspects.
700 1 $aHohnen, Peter.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009016292
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2009011349-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2009011349-d.html
852 0 $bglx$hD582.W6$iG85 2010