Phantom Raider: Nazi Germany's Most Successful Surface Raider (Fortunes of War) - Softcover

Mohr, Ulrich; Sellwood, A. V.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841450286 ISBN 13: 9781841450285

Publisher: Cerberus Pub, 2005

Synopsis

The two year cruise of Atlantis was to be the longest in the history of the Second World War, but after her destruction in the South Atlantic, shattered by the guns of HMS Devonshire, naval records simply referred to her as Ship Sixteen.

However, Atlantis had the highest score of all German raiders – twice as much tonnage as the famed Graf Spee. She was a Phantom Raider, on of the Ghost Fleet, which terrorized merchant shipping in the Indian and Atlantic oceans.

Twenty-one ships were sunk by her hidden guns yet the survivors she picked up had no hatred for their captors. Instead many of those interviewed had ungrudging admiration for the Germany officers and crew who captured them.

Here is a fascinating story of the war at sea when Germany was the hunter, and of a ship whose exploits might never have been known but for the tenacious probing of the author, A. V. Sellwood, and the willingness of the Atlantis captain’s ADC, Ulrich Mohr, to recall those incredible 622 days at sea.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cerberus Pub
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841450286
• ISBN 13: 9781841450285
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224