Collection type | Library |
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Author | Guilliatt, Richard, 1958-; Hohnen, Peter.; |
Call Number | 940.45943 G957 |
Document type | Monograph |
Year | 2009. |
Pagination | xiii, 366 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. |
Publisher | William Heinemann Australia, |
Note | Includes index. Bibliography: p. [353]-356. During World War I, a young Australian family sails across the Pacific from San Francisco to Sydney. Less than a thousand miles from Sydney, a freighter appears out of the emptiness. She is in fact the German warship the Wolf, and the family are about tofind themselves captive on one of the century's most extraordinary wartime sea voyages. |
Place made | North Sydney, N.S.W. : |
The Wolf : how one German raider terrorised Australia and the Southern Oceans in the First World War / Richard Guilliatt & Peter Hohnen. How one German raider terrorised Australia and the Southern Oceans in the First World War
Abstract
Black raider -- Suicide ships -- Wartime secrets -- Edge of the world -- Juanita''s war -- Enemy within -- Message in a bottle -- Scandal and mutiny -- Speck on the ocean -- End run -- Stranded -- Honour and defeat.
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Subjects
- Germany - History, Naval - 20th century.. Kriegsmarine History World War, 1914-1918.
- Wolf (Steamship)
- Wolf (Ship)
- Warships - Germany - History, Naval - 20th century. - History - 20th century.
- Seizure of vessels and cargoes - Indo-Australian Region - History - 20th century...
- Seizure of vessels and cargoes - Indo-Australian Region - History - 20th century..
- World War, 1914-1918 - Naval operations, German.
- World War, 1914-1918 - Prisoners and prisons.
- Indo-Australian Region - History - 20th century.
- Germany - History, Naval - 20th century.
- Battleships
- World War 1
- Germany
- New Zealand
- Naval warfare