Richard Guilliatt & Peter Hohnen - The Wolf

Sent by Germany on a suicide mission to the far side of the world, The Wolf was a formidable and ingenious commerce-raider, equipped to inflict maximum destruction on Allied shipping. In one continual 64,000-mile voyage lasting fifteen months, she caused havoc across three oceans, launched Germany’s only direct attacks on Australia and New Zealand in the Great War and captured over 400 men, women and children. Surviving on fuel and food plundered from other ships, the ship became a world in miniature as her 350-strong crew and their prisoners crowded together in an improbable survival story.