The Kaiser's Lost Kreuzer

<p> In the final year of World War I Germany made its first attempt to wage submarine warfare off faraway shores. Large long-range U-boats (short for <I>unterseeboot</I> or undersea boat) attacked Allied shipping off the coasts of the U.S. Canada and West Africa in a desperate campaign to sidestep and scatter the lethal U-boat defenses in European waters.</p><p> Commissioned in 1917 <I>U-156</I> raided commerce transported captured cargo and terrorized coastal populations from Madeira to Cape Cod. In July 1918 the <I>USS San Diego</I> was sunk as it headed into New York Harbor--the opening salvo in a month-long series of audacious attacks by <I>U-156</I> along the North American coast. The author chronicles the campaign from the perspective of Imperial Germany for the first time in English.</p>