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The Sea Devil
The Adventures of Count Felix von Luckner, the Last Raider under Sail
The Sea Devil
The Adventures of Count Felix von Luckner, the Last Raider under Sail
Description
Tasked with destroying as many British merchant ships as possible, German aristocrat Felix von Luckner and his ship the Seeadler succeeded in spectacular fashion.
n 1916, a three-masted windjammer bearing Norwegian colours sailed out of a quiet anchorage in Germany, loaded with cargo and apparently bound for Australia. Her true mission was quite different.
The ship was, in fact, the SMS Seeadler, commanded by swashbuckling German aristocrat Felix von Luckner. Over an epic voyage, he used cunning and deception to destroy fourteen merchant ships, all the while evading the utterly foxed and infuriated British Admiralty in a daring game of cat and mouse.
This rip-roaring World War I story depicts a life of espionage, counterespionage and piracy of the most gentlemanly kind.
Table of Contents
1 The Muckle Flugga Hussars
2 Lone wolves and banana boats
3 Runaways, coal bags and the Kaiser
4 Cloak and dagger
5 Dangerous waters
6 Search and destroy
7 First blood
8 The captain's club
9 A journey into darkness
10 In the land of the lotus eaters
11 On the beach
12 2,500 miles in an open boat
13 The castaways' escape
14 Baby-killers imprisoned
15 The door is left open
16 The great escape
17 A floating coffin
18 Freedom and defeat
Epilogue: A pawn in the game
A note on the text
Endnotes
Product details
| Published | Sep 21 2017 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781472827890 |
| Imprint | Osprey Publishing |
| Illustrations | 1 x 8pp colour plates |
| Series | General Military |
| Short code | GNM |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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