First victory : 1914 : HMAS Sydney's hunt for the German raider Emden

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First victory : 1914 : HMAS Sydney's hunt for the German raider Emden

Title remainder

1914 : HMAS Sydney's hunt for the German raider Emden

Statement of responsibility

Mike Carlton

Title variation

• First victory 1914
• HMAS Sydney's hunt for the German raider Emden
• First victory 1914
• HMAS Sydney's hunt for the German raider Emden

Creator

• trueCarlton, Michael

Author

• trueCarlton, Michael

Subject

• trueAustralian
• trueGermany -- History, Naval
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations, Australian
• trueNaval battles -- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
• trueWorld War I
• trueHistory writing -- Wars and conflicts -- World War I
• trueAustralian literature
• trueIndian Ocean
• trueSydney (Cruiser : 1913-1929)
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Indian Ocean
• trueMilitary campaigns
• trueEmden (Cruiser)
• trueAustralia -- History, Naval
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations--German
• trueHistory writing -- Australia -- 20th century

Genre

• trueHistory writing
• trueAustralian literature

Language

eng

Summary

HMAS Sydney's hunt for the German raider, Emden. In the opening months of the First World War, Emden's trail of destruction was tremendous. This one small ship and her skilled and gallant captain wrought havoc on the maritime trade of the British Empire, capturing and sinking ships at will. Australia, sending wool, wheat and gold across the Indian Ocean to sustain the Mother Country and despatching tens of thousands of young men to join the fight, had a vital interest in bringing Emden to her end. The battle, when it came, was short and bloody, an emphatic first victory at sea for the newborn Royal Australian Navy. It remains to this day a celebrated epic of naval warfare. In the century since, many writers have been there before Mike Carlton. Most were German, some of them survivors of the battle, others later historians, and they have generally told the story well. British accounts vary in quality, from good to nonsense, and there have been some patchwork American attempts as well. Curiously, there has been very little written from an Australian point of view. This book is - in part - an attempt to remedy that, with new facts and perspectives brought into the light of day

Award

NSW Premier's History Awards, Australian Military History Prize, 2014.

Cataloging source

ANL

Dewey number

940.45994

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult