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German High Seas Fleet 1914-18

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Fleet (Osprey)

Last Stocked on 10/21/2023

Product Info

Title
German High Seas Fleet 1914-18
Publisher
Product Line
Category
Author
Angus Konstam
Publish Year
2023
Pages
80
Dimensions
7x10x.25"
NKG Part #
2148081825
MFG. Part #
OSPFLT2
Type
Softcover
Series
FLT2

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, 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.

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