BOOK - FIRST WORLD WAR - Payot editions 1929, - Lot 887

BOOK - FIRST WORLD WAR - Payot editions 1929, "Collection de Mémoires, études & documents pour servir à l'histoire de la guerre mondiale". "L' EMDEN", by François-Joseph de HOHENZOLLERN, Lieutenant de Vaisseau, torpedo officer on board the ship. Translated from the German by Henri Schricke. 22.7 x 14.5 cm - 207 pages + fold-out map of the emden's war cruises in 1914. History, told by a combatant, of raids on cities, naval battles, capture of ships in the Gulf of Bengal, detached to fight in the racing war, the end of the ship following the fight in the Cocos Islands with the Australian cruiser Sydney, the internment of the Emden's survivors in Malta, their living conditions as prisoners of the English. Commissioned in 1910, the EMDEN was the last coal-fired steamship of the Imperial German Navy, assigned to the Far East Squadron. With a crew of 361, this light cruiser sank some 30 ships between July and November 1914, and was sunk on November 9 by the Sydney.