The Amazing True Story of Imperial Germany's Gentleman Pirate.
On December 21, 1916, a three-masted sailing ship slipped out of the river Weser in northern Germany. Her captain had false papers, a deliberately damaged log book and a young sailor with a blonde wig to post as his wife. The ship sailed under a false flag, and even her name - the Hero - was a ruse. So begins this amazing true story, Blaine Pardoe's account of Felix von Luckner, the Imperial German Navy rider, set upon high seas to sink Britain's vital wartime supply ships during World War I.
Using sheer determination, pluck and wits, von Luckner steered clear of the British Navy so as to board and sink as many merchant ships as possible. Unlike the submarine fleet, the gentleman pirate made room on his ship for all prisoners and never fired a shot unless it was unavoidable.
