The Wolf : The Mystery Raider That Terrorized The Seas During World War I (Paperback)

from wishanem

By turns this book is charming, educational, cute, horrifying, riveting, and funny. Though it is a historical account, it has a more coherent story and cast of characters than many novels I've read. Strangely, I spent much of this book about a warship hoping that nobody would be shot (and in mo...

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The WWI German raider "Wolf" was a coal-fired merchant ship camouflaged in black paint that terrorized the world's oceans for over a year late in the war. Never landing at port the Wolf fed off the carcases of its victims, provisioning on the run like a high seas Bonnie and Clyde, leaving behind ...

from YogiABB

This non-fiction book by Richard Gulliatt and Peter Hohnen is just amazing. It is about a German merchant ship converted over to a disguised warship during World War I. It left Germany loaded with heavy guns, torpedos, and mines in order to prey upon merchant ships and mine harbors. It was wildly...

from setnahkt

Although she was technically SMS Wolf II, the original Wolf was forgotten after she broke her back on a sandbar in the Elbe. She was painted all black, which makes me wonder if she was the inspiration for “the Black Freighter” in Kurt Weill's Pirate Jenny (well, the English translation; it's a sa...

from Claire5555

Excellent book, really enjoyed it, I don't come across many books with a 1st war theme, made a nice change from the pile of 2nd world war books that I see in the library at work. The flow of the book was fine, and easy to follow, I was interested right up to the end of the book. Well worth a read...