rapidfire In Review Photo Contest T
he 2010 MOAA Patriotic Photo Contest brought us memories of daring tricks in uniform and touching images of servicemember and child
(see “Snapshots of Service,” July 2010). To compete this year, send in your best service-related photos now. All MOAA members and their spouses may enter, including amateur and professional photographers. En- trants may submit one photo in each of four categories. Visit
www.moaa.org/magazine/photocontest for full de-
tails, entry requirements, and judging criteria. Mail entries to MOAA Photo Contest, 201 N. Washington St., Alexan- dria, VA 22314 or e-mail them to
photocontest@moaa.org. The contest closes at 4 p.m. Eastern time, March 31.
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The Wolf: How One Ger- man Raider Terrorized the Allies in the Most Epic Voyage of WWI. By Richard Guilliatt and Peter Hohnen. Free Press, 2010. $27. ISBN 978-1-4165-7317-3.
The most successful high-seas German
commerce raider of World
War I was the SMS Wolf, a warship disguised as an in- nocent merchant vessel. It terrorized three oceans on a 15-month, nonstop voy- age, from November 1916 to February 1918, sailing 64,000 miles, sinking 30 Allied ships, and returning safely to Germany with- out ever putting into port or using its wireless. The Wolf was the scourge of the Atlantic, Pacifi c, and Indian oceans.
Authors Richard Guilliatt and Peter
Hohnen spent fi ve years researching this little- known but remarkable story, fi nally revealing
this obscure part of World War I naval history. They describe how Capt. Karl Nerger “exercised iron- clad control of his ship through sheer force of personality” and a volca- nic temper and how he fl ummoxed Allied pursuit;
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thwarted mutiny, starva- tion, and disease; housed 400 prisoners on board; and managed to capture enough food and fuel to remain at sea for 444 days.
Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare. Edited by Daniel Marston and Carter Malkasian. Osprey Publishing, 2010. $19.95. ISBN 978-1- 84908-164-1.
Coun-
terinsur- gency opera- tions
are dif- fi cult,
deadly,
and fi lled with peril, as evidenced by this thought- provoking collection of counterinsurgency studies reaching from the Philip- pine insurrection in 1900 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan today.
The studies by 14 con- tributors explore the rea- sons for insurgencies, as well as the diverse meth- ods governments use to deal with them.
Case studies include
why the British were so successful in defeating the insurgency in then-Malaya in 1960 and how the Phil- ippine government became the “fi rst Asian country to defeat a communist insur- gency” after it crushed the Huk rebellion in 1954. — William D. Bushnell
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