BOOK - FIRST WORLD WAR - Payot editions 1927, - Lot 894

BOOK - FIRST WORLD WAR - Payot editions 1927, "Collection de Mémoires, études & documents pour servir à l'histoire de la guerre mondiale". "LE DERNIER CORSAIRE 1914-1918" by Count Félis de LUCKNER, COMMANDER of the VOILIER PIRATE "L' AIGLE de MER". Souvenirs translated from the German by Louis Berthain - INCREDIBLE EPOPEA of a large commercial sailing ship, probably the last in naval history, to have fought the war under sail. 252 pages + 15 PHOTOGRAPHIES OUTSIDE TEXT. Autobiography of the sailor before the war & circumnavigation of the globe, mobilized under the imperial uniform, in Cameroon, war and naval battle, sailboat as war cruiser, blockade runners, disguises to escape Allied warships, shipwreck and robinsonnade, 2300 miles by canoe to return to civilization, imprisoned in New Zealand, escape and resumption of the racing war, recaptured and imprisoned in Auckland, then in various camps; returned to Germany in July 1919.