ADMIRALTY REVIEW OF GERMAN CRUISER WARFARE 1914-1918

This Admiralty monograph integrates the principal evidence concerning German surface raiders in the First World War, drawing chiefly on the German Official History of Cruiser Warfare, 1914–18 (Kreuzerkrieg, three volumes). It offers a detailed analysis of the Cruiser Squadron, with particular attention to the light cruisers Emden, Königsberg and Karlsruhe, and to the auxiliary cruisers Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, Cap Trafalgar, Kronprinz Wilhelm, Cormoran, Prinz Eitel Friedrich, Möwe (two cruises), Greif, Wolf, Seeadler and Leopard. Written by Vice-Admiral Kenneth G. B. Dewar in 1939-1940 when he was temporarily attached to the Historical Section it is tightly typeset and illustrated with fifteen hand-drawn charts tracing operations in chronological sequence, it stands as a concise official study of the Imperial German Navy’s campaign against British maritime supply lines during World War I.