Description
Title: Prisoner of the Kormoran
Author: Jones, W A
Condition: Very Good Plus – Refer pics for the condition. Tatty dust jacket and two pages are priced clipped. Internally nice and clean copy.
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 1944
ISBN: Nil
Cover: Hard Cover with Dust Jacket – 318 pages
Comments: W.A. Jones’s amazing experiences on the German raider Kormoran, and as a prisoner of war in Germany during World War 2.
The German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran (HSK-8) was a Kriegsmarine (German Navy) merchant raider of World War II. Originally the merchant vessel Steiermark, the ship was acquired by the Kriegsmarine following the outbreak of war for conversion into a raider. Administered by the Kriegsmarine under the designation Schiff 41, to the Allied navies she was known as Raider G. The largest merchant raider operated by Germany during World War II, Kormoran was responsible for the destruction of ten merchant vessels and the capture of an eleventh during her year-long career in the Atlantic and Indian oceans.
She is also known for sinking the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney during a mutually destructive battle off Western Australia on 19 November 1941. Damage sustained during the battle prompted the scuttling of Kormoran. While 318 of the 399 aboard the German ship were rescued and placed in prisoner of war camps for the duration of World War II, there were no survivors from the 645 aboard the Australian cruiser.
