Angus Konstam

German High Seas Fleet 1914-18 (eBook, ePUB)

The Kaiser's challenge to the Royal Navy
Illustrator: Groult, Edouard A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472856456
• Artikelnr.: 68375267

Autorenporträt

Angus Konstam is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has written widely on naval history, with well over a hundred books in print. He is a former Royal Navy officer, maritime archaeologist and museum curator, who has worked in the Royal Armouries, Tower of London, and Mel Fisher Maritime Museum. Now a full-time author and historian, he lives in Orkney.

Inhaltsangabe

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