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The Sea Devil: The Adventures of Count Felix von Luckner, the Last Raider under Sail

By Sam Jefferson

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing
ISBN
9781472827883, 1472827880
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (13057153 bytes)
Series
General Military
Pages
256\265
Time added
2020-09-27 11:47:32
Nonfiction;War;History;Cultural;Germany;Literature

Description

In 1916, a three-masted windjammer bearing Norwegian colors 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 SMSSeeadler, 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.

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