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Loading... The Kaiser's Battlefleet: German Capital Ships 1871-1918by Aidan Dodson
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The title of this work is really all you need to know, as the the author provides you first with an extended examination of how the force structure of the Second Reich's naval effort evolved before moving on to an overview of how that force performed in wartime (up to and including the service of the last of these ships during World War II) and winding up with a technical overview of all these classes; including the alternate proposals for each ship. Highly recommended. ( ) no reviews | add a review
This illustrated study of the German Imperial Navy presents a ship-by-ship history from the dreadnaught era through WWI. The battleships of the Third Reich have been written about exhaustively, but there is little in English devoted to their predecessors of the Second Reich. In The Kaiser's Battlefleet, Aidan Dodson fills this significant gap in German naval history by covering these capital ships and studying the full span of battleship development during this period. Kaiser's Battlefleet presents a chronological narrative that features technical details, construction schedules and the ultimate fates of each ship tabulated throughout. With a broad synthesis of German archival research, Dodson provides fresh data and corrects significant errors found in standard English-language texts. Heavily illustrated with line work and photographs drawn from German sources, this study will appeal to historians of WWI German as well as battleship modelmakers. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)623.8252Technology Engineering and allied operations Military Engineering and Marine Engineering Naval architecture; Shipbuilding History of Naval Architecture WarshipsLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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