Lowell Thomas meets Felix von Luckner on a German airfield and draws out his story: a runaway boy who went to sea, wrestled in Hamburg’s Sankt Pauli and drifted round Australia, then commanded the windjammer Seeadler, which slipped through the British blockade in 1916 and captured ship after ship as a commerce raider.
A brisk, popular war-adventure biography by the journalist who made Lawrence of Arabia famous. Download the free EPUB.