What Others Historians and Authors Say About Blaine Pardoe

and the Cruise of the Sea Eagle:

“Blaine Pardoe has taken a true-life World War I episode of daring on the high seas, and has spun it into an old style swashbuckler.  Don’t be surprised when you find yourself rooting for the pirates!”  Sherry Sontag, co-author of the bestselling Blind Man’s Bluff, the Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage. 

“Felix von Luckner may have been the last of the privateers, a German sea “pirate” whose sailing ship was an anachronism in World War I, and whose adventures seem too good to be true.  Blaine Pardoe’s wonderful account of this adventurer would make several films if audiences could believe it all really happened, which it did.”  Professor William C. Davis, Virginia Tech, author of over 50 books including the highly acclaimed Three Roads to the Alamo.