242 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Map endpapers, b&w photographs, map. "During the last months of 1914, the exploits of the 'Emden' were headline news all over the world, and even the British could not withhold their admiration fo r the daring and gallantry with which this small ship evaded the efforts of the Royal Navy to catch and destroy her. Edwin Hoyt's reconstruction of this story is authoritative and vivid and is the first complete history of the 'Emden' and her cr e w to be published in many years. At the outbreak of war the 'Emden' formed part of Germany's Far East Squadron. The other ships of the squadron, under Admiral von Spee, eventually met their fate at the Falkland Islands; but the 'Emden' was det ac he d and sent into the Indian Ocean as a commerce raider. Alone, and hunted by vastly superior forces, the 'Emden' sank some twenty merchantmen, a Russian cruiser and a French destroyer. The 'Emden's' captain, Kapitan von Muller, was operatin g i n a n ocean which was virtually a British lake, capturing his supplies and, most important of all, the coal for his ship's boilers, from his victims. He always showed a punctilious care for the lives of the crews of the captured vessels: in fac t on e of t he most fascinating aspects of the story is the gentlemanly, almost chivalrous spirit in which warfare was conducted, only months before the U-boat cast the shadow of total war across the world's oceans...." Book light cracked at page 116, very li ght browning to edges of textblock, light wrinkling at top of spine. small crease at top corner of pages 225 to 240. Dust jacket has some very light edge wear/wrinkling, small tear (archivally taped) with chip at bottom of spine, s light darken ing to spine and flap-folds, light soiling on rear panel. Very Good/Very Good-

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