Author: Weyher, Kurt and Ehrlich, Hans Jürgen (trans. Paul Dinnage),
Title: THE BLACK RAIDER.
Description: Panther.London, 1957, 1st in imprint, paperback, 144pp, coloured pictorial upper wrapper,account of the seventeen months voyage of the German armed merchant cruiser Orion (originally Hamburg America Line 'Kurmark'), also known as 'Raider A' or 'Ship 36', departing from Kiel in March, 1940 and returning to Bordeaux in August 1941, having circumnavigated the world but steamed the equivalent of five times round it, mined the approaches to New Zealand and accounted for a gross tonnage of 80,000 in ships (some shared with the raider Komet), rubbed with slight loss at spine ends, edges well tanned, ink names half title and title, good plus,

Keywords: war ww2 navy german raider commerce auxiliary cruiser orion komet kulmerland pinguin ole jacob munsterland regensburg weser hsk1 raidera raider-a ship36


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