By 1916 the German merchant fleet had been driven from the seas by a British blockade that had cut off Germany from foreign markets and put the nation on the verge of economic collapse. Germany's desperate response was the Deutschland, a merchant U-boat uniquely designed with an exceptionally wide beam to carry cargo. Its brief career as a blockade-runner captured international headlines, and Paul Konig's fast-moving account of its maiden voyage was one of the most popular books of the year when first published in the United States in 1917.
Although an acknowledged piece...
By 1916 the German merchant fleet had been driven from the seas by a British blockade that had cut off Germany from foreign markets and put the nat...
Three invaluable and exciting accounts of the German U-Boats of the Great War Following the success of the original Leonaur volume concerning the U-Boat War 1914-1918, the Leonaur editors have brought together three more interesting and vital accounts for the sake of good value and because, in view of their comparatively small size, they are unlikely to see individual re-publication in modern times. Here, in volume two, the first account is the journal of a U-Boat Commander at war and its author eloquently describes his patrols and his attacks on merchant shipping. Konig's account of the...
Three invaluable and exciting accounts of the German U-Boats of the Great War Following the success of the original Leonaur volume concerning the ...
Three invaluable and exciting accounts of the German U-Boats of the Great War Following the success of the original Leonaur volume concerning the U-Boat War 1914-1918, the Leonaur editors have brought together three more interesting and vital accounts for the sake of good value and because, in view of their comparatively small size, they are unlikely to see individual re-publication in modern times. Here, in volume two, the first account is the journal of a U-Boat Commander at war and its author eloquently describes his patrols and his attacks on merchant shipping. Konig's account of the...
Three invaluable and exciting accounts of the German U-Boats of the Great War Following the success of the original Leonaur volume concerning the ...
Paul Konig beschreibt in diesem Buch die Fahrten des ersten Untersee-Frachtschiffs "Deutschland." Detailliert geht er auf den Alltag auf dem Schiff ein, das die englische Blockade durchbrach und uber den Atlantik hin und her reiste. Nachdruck des Originals von 1916.
Paul Konig beschreibt in diesem Buch die Fahrten des ersten Untersee-Frachtschiffs "Deutschland." Detailliert geht er auf den Alltag auf dem Schiff ei...
