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GERMAN HIGH SEAS FLEET 1914-18

The Kaiser’s challenge to the Royal Navy

Autore: Angus Konstam

Codice: 228080002

€ 19,00

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, 3D 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.

Table of Contents

THE FLEET'S PURPOSE

The Kaiser's 'Luxury Fleet'

The Risk Theory

Force Balancing

FLEET FIGHTING POWER

The Ships

Technology

Light Forces

HOW THE FLEET OPERATED

Organization

Command and Control

Communications and Intelligence

Bases and Logistics

COMBAT AND ANALYSIS

The Fleet in Combat

Analysis

FURTHER READING

Nome Collana

OSRPEY FLEET

Lingua

INGLESE

Illustrazioni

Riccamente illustrato a colori e in bianco e nero

Pagine

80

Misure

18,5 x 25

ISBN
9781472856470