The Last Cruise Of The Emden
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
In the opening months of the First World War, a single German warship terrorised the entire Indian Ocean, sending shock waves through the British Empire and earning the grudging admiration of her enemies — The Last Cruise of the Emden chronicles the audacious final voyage of SMS Emden, the legendary German light cruiser whose lone-wolf campaign of commerce raiding made her the most celebrated naval vessel of the war. Edwin P. Hoyt reconstructs, with meticulous detail and gripping narrative authority, the exploits of Captain Karl von Müller and his crew as they outmanoeuvred vastly superior Allied forces, capturing or sinking dozens of ships before meeting their dramatic end at the hands of the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney off the Cocos Islands in November 1914. Hoyt, a prolific chronicler of naval warfare, presents this remarkable story as both a military history and a human drama, illuminating themes of honour, audacity, and the peculiar chivalry that defined naval combat in an age before total war consumed such notions entirely. Drawing on firsthand accounts and period sources, he captures the atmosphere of a conflict still governed by gentlemen's codes, where a raider captain could win the respect of his adversaries by treating prisoners with dignity. Rich in operational detail yet compulsively readable, this account leaves the reader to ponder how one small ship — and the force of one commander's will — could defy an empire, and what that says about the nature of courage itself.
Author: Edwin P. Hoyt
Format: Hardback
Published: 1967, Andre Deutsch
Genre: WW1
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
In the opening months of the First World War, a single German warship terrorised the entire Indian Ocean, sending shock waves through the British Empire and earning the grudging admiration of her enemies — The Last Cruise of the Emden chronicles the audacious final voyage of SMS Emden, the legendary German light cruiser whose lone-wolf campaign of commerce raiding made her the most celebrated naval vessel of the war. Edwin P. Hoyt reconstructs, with meticulous detail and gripping narrative authority, the exploits of Captain Karl von Müller and his crew as they outmanoeuvred vastly superior Allied forces, capturing or sinking dozens of ships before meeting their dramatic end at the hands of the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney off the Cocos Islands in November 1914. Hoyt, a prolific chronicler of naval warfare, presents this remarkable story as both a military history and a human drama, illuminating themes of honour, audacity, and the peculiar chivalry that defined naval combat in an age before total war consumed such notions entirely. Drawing on firsthand accounts and period sources, he captures the atmosphere of a conflict still governed by gentlemen's codes, where a raider captain could win the respect of his adversaries by treating prisoners with dignity. Rich in operational detail yet compulsively readable, this account leaves the reader to ponder how one small ship — and the force of one commander's will — could defy an empire, and what that says about the nature of courage itself.