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This page contains links to other WW1 books mostly concerned with the attempts by the Royal navy to curtail the German raider threat and track them down and destroy them. PLUS INDIAN OCEAN                  

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Click on this image to go to Barrie Pitt's " Coronel and Falkland " page at camberpete.co.uk
  
French book of Coronel and Falklands in WW1
   Click here to go to "The Enemy fought Spendidly"; HMS Kent's part in the Battle of the Falklands and its aftermath 1914-1915
Click on this image to go to John Irving's " Coronel and the Falklands " page at camberpete.co.uk !
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This book tells of the campaign of the German East Asia naval squadron, based on the colony of Tsingtao in China, which threatened to strangle the trade of Great Britain at the start of the First World War. The fleet, commanded by Admiral Graf von Spee, consisted of the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Leipzig, Dresden and Emden. Click for more details!
  
Click this image to see Keith Middlemas's " Command the Far Seas "; his study of the German Asiatic Squadrons implementation of der Kruizerkreig and the Royal Navy's counter !
   Click for Dan van der Vat's " Gentlemen of War: The amazing story of Captain Karl von Müller and the SMS Emdem " page at camberpete.co.uk !
Captained by courageous Paul Thierfelder, the cunningly disguised Kronprinz Wilhelm roamed the Atlantic wreaking havoc among defenceless Allied merchant ships. Her elusiveness and ability to attack suddenly and without warning soon earned her the name 'Ghost of the Atlantic'. Click for more details!
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A first hand account of HMS Glasgow’s part at the Falklands, 1914 and subsequent destruction of SMS Dresden. Uniquely Harold Hickling discusses the problems facing the Island’s kelpers after Coronel. The author commanded HMS Glasgow in WW2 and played a major part at Normandy.   Click on this image to go to H. von Mucke's " The Ayesha " the story of the escape of the Emdem's landing party (First UK edition - illustrated)!   The German cruiser Königsberg, after a successfull raiding cruise at the beginning of WW1 was eventually forced to seek refuge in the Rufifi Delta in East africa where after great effort she was destroyed by the Royal Navy. The Königsberg's crew dragged some of her guns across Africa tying down British forces. Click to see more!
Click here to go to E. Keble Chatterton's " The Königsberg Adventure " page at camberpete.co.uk !
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Click here to go to R. K. Lochner's " The Last Gentleman of War " the story of the raider exploits of the cruiser Emdem !