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The Kaiser's battlefleet : German capital ships 1870-1918

Title: The Kaiser's battlefleet : German capital ships 1870-1918 / Aidan Dodson.
Author: Dodson, Aidan, 1962-
Publication: Barnsley : Seaforth Publishing, Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2016.

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Description

256 pages : illustrations, maps; 29 cm

Summary

"The battleships of the Third Reich have been written about exhaustively, but there is little in English devoted to their Second Reich predecessors. This new book fills an important gap in the literature of the period by covering these German capital ships in detail and studying the full span of battleship development during this period. The book is arranged as a chronological narrative, with technical details, construction schedules, and ultimate fates tabulated throughout, thus avoiding the sometimes disjointed structure that can result from a class-by-class approach. Heavily illustrated with line drawings and photographs, many from German sources, the book offers readers a fresh visual look at these ships. A key objective of the book is to make available a full synthesis of the published fruits of archival research by German writers found in the pre-World War II books of Koop & Schmolke, Großmer's on the construction program of the dreadnaught era, Forstmeier & Breyer on World War I projects, and Schenk & Nottelmann's papers in Warship International. As well as providing data not available in English-language books, these sources correct significant errors in standard English sources."--Publisher description.

Alternative Title

German capital ships 1870-1918

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Note

Illustrations on lining pages.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface -- Introduction -- The naming of German warships -- Conventions and abbreviations -- Part I. Rise and Fall of the Battlefleet. Before the empire -- The era of Wilhelm I -- The new emperor -- The Fleet Law era -- The world of the dreadnought -- War - I -- War - II -- Afterglow -- Retrospect -- Part II. Technical and Career Data. Ships for the Prussian and German navies -- Summary of capital ship authorisations -- Ship seized by Germany -- Ships for export -- Appendices. 1. Main armament mountings -- 2. Trial results -- 3. Organisation of capital ships and cruisers from 1884.

ISBN

1848322291
9781848322295

OCLC

ocn948683244
948683244
SCSB-1859633

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library