Links to websites of interest

  • UK Publisher: Bantam Press
  • Australian Publisher: Random House
  • USA Publisher: Free Press
  • Literary Agent: Mary Cunnane Agency
  • Silent film footage of the crew and prisoners aboard SMS Wolf is included in German Navy propaganda reels which can be viewed here.
  • The Australian War Memorial has obtained a collection of more than 200 photographs taken aboard SMS Wolf during the ship’s 15-month voyage. They are viewable here.
  • Axel Nerger and Uwe Nerger — grandsons of the Wolf’s captain, Karl Nerger — helped produce a fascinating German television documentary about their grandfather in 2007. Axel Nerger can be contacted via the website sms-wolf.com.
  • Mackenzie Gregory was an officer in the Royal Australian Navy in World War 2 and is now a historian whose website Ahoy is a rich store of information about the raiders of both world wars.
  • The wreckage of the passenger freighter Port Kembla, sunk by one of the Wolf’s mines off New Zealand in June 1918, was located and filmed by local divers Simon Mitchell and Peter Mesley in 2007. Their footage can be viewed here.
  • Additional photos and information from that dive can be found at Brian Kirkwood’s site, wreckdive.co.nz.
  • The service records of Australian military personnel can be searched on the Australian War Memorial website.
  • The National Library of Australia has scanned the pages of thousands of historical newspapers, among them The Argus and the Adelaide Advertiser. Click here to browse this amazing resource.