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Cargando... The Last Cruise of the Emden: The Amazing True WWI Story of a German-Light Cruiser and Her Courageous Crewpor Edwin P. Hoyt
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A competent retelling of the German irruption into the Indian Ocean in the dawn of WWI. This light cruiser played the game very well, until run down and destroyed by the Australian light Cruiser, Sydney at Cocos Island. Prior to her defeat, she sank the Russian Cruiser Zemchug, and the French destroyer, Mosquet, in the battle of Penang. A landing party, unable to rejoin the Emden for her last fight, rivalled the voyage of the William Bligh's loyalists from the famous HMS Bounty. The German sailors eventually found their way to the Ottoman empire and back home to Germany. ( ) Excellent story. A hopeless mission from the start, carried out with dedication and panache. When the ship was finally lost, a landing party continued on and made it across the middle east to Turkey. Hoyt touched on all the German ships that conducted business in the far and near east and all are worthwhile reads. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"The Last Cruise of the Emden" is the true story of one of the most extraordinary and little-known escapades of World War I. On August 2, 1914, the Emden, a German light cruiser, was steaming peacefully off the China coast when over its wireless came the message that the German Empire was at war. The ship was made ready for action. What followed was a six-month voyage that took the Emden and its crew halfway around the world, fighting heroic battles both on land and at sea, culminating in a dramatic journey across the Arabian desert, which saw the crew survive attacks of malaria, typhus, dysentery, and the murderous onslaught of Lawrence of Arabia's bedouin tribesmen. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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