The United States was still 3,000 miles and two years away from the horrors of the Great War in Europe during the spring of 1915. But when an audacious German commerce raider eluded its pursuers and ...
More than 70 years after the defeat of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich, it’s still hard for many Americans to imagine what the world was like before we fought alongside Britain in two brutal wars ...
Converted German merchant raiders, long on speed and cruising range, have harried Allied shipping with painful success. Last week the German merchant raider Steiermark met the Australian cruiser ...