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"No more risky enterprise day after day, week after week, can be conceived than that of hovering about on the sea-lanes, usually within wireless range of the British cruisers; and the narrow escapes, the coincidences, the exciting moments rival breathless fiction."In this gripping narrative, Chatterton describes the journey of German-American liners across the world's marine highways, through rough waters to Pacific islands and tropical climates followed by treacherous winds and snow-capped mountains.He includes rare first-hand accounts and information from the British Admiralty Archives, providing unrivalled descriptions of one of the greatest and most controversial Naval adventures. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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They roamed the world and all its oceans. Unlike how submarine warfare would soon develop they would take crews off ships and often transfer their cargo, especially if valuable coal, before dispatching them. Reflecting on the times they often released ships with women and children on board and held services for slain foes.
So, if you like this sort of thing, and are fascinated by how grand the scope of WWI was, and not just the European eastern front, you might like this.
Written in 1931 the English is different and words like descried and elsewhither crop up! ( )