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Konstam Angus - German High Seas Fleet 1914 18 The Kaisers Challenge To The Royal Navy - Paperback
Konstam Angus - German High Seas Fleet 1914 18 The Kaisers Challenge To The Royal Navy - Paperback
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Description: A superbly illustrated new account of how Germany's High Seas Fleet was built operated and fought as it challenged the world's most powerful navy in World War I. Seven years before the outbreak of World War I the Imperial German Navy rebranded its Home Fleet as the Hochseeflotte or High Seas Fleet. It was a force designed to take on the Royal Navy then the world's most powerful and for the next four years the North Sea would be their battleground. Drawing on extensive research Angus Konstam offers the reader a concise fully illustrated account of how the entire High Seas Fleet was designed and built how it operated and how it fought. The fleet was a modern balanced force of dreadnought battleships battlecruisers cruisers and torpedo boats using Zeppelins and U - boats for reconnaissance. The ultimate test between them came in May 1916, when they clashed at Jutland. Packed with spectacular original artwork maps 3 D diagrams and archive photos it explains how and why the fleet was built its role and how and why it fought as it did. From fighting doctrine and crew training to intelligence logistics and gunnery this book is an essential guide to the Kaiser's audacious bid for naval glory.
Title: German High Seas Fleet 1914 18 The Kaisers Challenge To The Royal Navy
Author(s): Konstam Angus, Edouard A. Groult
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781472856470
Pages: 80 Pages, Illustrated Throughout With At Least 40 Archive Photos And 15 Pages Of Original Colour Ill
Publication Date: 9/26/2023
Series: Fleet
Category: Military & Naval Ships
Description: A superbly illustrated new account of how Germany's High Seas Fleet was built operated and fought as it challenged the world's most powerful navy in World War I. Seven years before the outbreak of World War I the Imperial German Navy rebranded its Home Fleet as the Hochseeflotte or High Seas Fleet. It was a force designed to take on the Royal Navy then the world's most powerful and for the next four years the North Sea would be their battleground. Drawing on extensive research Angus Konstam offers the reader a concise fully illustrated account of how the entire High Seas Fleet was designed and built how it operated and how it fought. The fleet was a modern balanced force of dreadnought battleships battlecruisers cruisers and torpedo boats using Zeppelins and U - boats for reconnaissance. The ultimate test between them came in May 1916, when they clashed at Jutland. Packed with spectacular original artwork maps 3 D diagrams and archive photos it explains how and why the fleet was built its role and how and why it fought as it did. From fighting doctrine and crew training to intelligence logistics and gunnery this book is an essential guide to the Kaiser's audacious bid for naval glory.
Title: German High Seas Fleet 1914 18 The Kaisers Challenge To The Royal Navy
Author(s): Konstam Angus, Edouard A. Groult
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781472856470
Pages: 80 Pages, Illustrated Throughout With At Least 40 Archive Photos And 15 Pages Of Original Colour Ill
Publication Date: 9/26/2023
Series: Fleet
Category: Military & Naval Ships
