Hello,
thanks for your comments. A bit lame here, all are posting at those modern sub forums from WWII and on ... how boring lol
@ Robert Fulton: Thank you for this book tip, i will try to get it. I have read von Luckner's book about the "Seeadler" and its fate as an auxiliary "cruiser", and about the "Emden", if not Hoyt's book.
@ Deamon: Yes, i'm from Germany, near Hannover. I am currently more interested in the time before WWII ..
There is also a good book with a half fictious story (but mostly historically correct) about another theme, a german trade steamer at lake Tanganyika (how does this spell in english?) from Alex Capus, title is "Eine Frage der Zeit" which would be "A question of time", but i do not know whether this has been translated or published in english (?). Really great to read. If you are interested i could post some links to sites having info about this steamer (the "Graf Goetzen" (ö=oe)).
Apart from that i am interested in the life of a distant relative (Berthold Schilling), who died in 1918 during a bombing mission aboard an airship. We have already lots of information and intend to write a half-fictious story about the airship that was involved.
Greetings,
Catfish