Solidly grounded in history, ONE ROGUE RAIDER chronicles the heroic deeds of both the EMDEN’s crew and those of her pursuers, while imagining their hopes and dreams. Along with the frustrations of Britain’s First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill. It brings to life what was perhaps the last instance of a conflict at sea where tonnage sunk and body counts did not trump human decency and honor.
In late June, 1914, two gunshots in Sarajevo have changed the course of history. Archduke Franz Ferdinand is dead and World War I begins. On the other side of the world the German dreadnought SMS EMDEN is sent from China to the Far East to disrupt Allied shipping. The EMDEN is outnumbered sixty to one but the men on board do their duty. What follows is a three-month-cat-and-mouse chase with the Royal Navy. Under the leadership of “gentleman pirate” Captain Karl Friedrich von Muller, the elusive “White Swan of the East” manages to sink sixteen Allied civilian vessels without a single loss of life on either side before meeting its fiery demise.
Solidly grounded in history, ONE ROGUE RAIDER chronicles the heroic deeds of both the EMDEN’s crew and those of her pursuers, while imagining their hopes and dreams. Along with the frustrations of Britain’s First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill. It brings to life what was perhaps the last instance of a conflict at sea where tonnage sunk and body counts did not trump human decency and honor.
