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"Luxury" Fleet: The Imperial German Navy 1888-1918

By Holger H. Herwig

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
ISBN
1138014346, 9781138014343
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16938337 bytes)
Series
RLE The First World War 7
Edition
1
Pages
340\341
Time added
2018-05-28 16:03:47

Description

Originally published in 1980 ‘Luxury’ Fleet (the phrase was Winston Churchill’s) was the first history of the Imperial German navy from 1888 to 1918. After tracing the historical background to German naval ambitions, the first two sections of the book analyse Admiral Tirpitz’s programme of building a battle fleet strong enough to engage the Royal Navy in the North Sea. The author shows the fleet in its European setting and describes the warships and the attitudes of the officer corps and seamen. The final section of the book discusses the tactical deployment of the German fleet during the First World War, both in home waters and overseas; and it weighs the balance between those who supported fleet actions in preference to those who favoured cruiser and submarine warfare.

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