Covers all of the main German battleships of WWII, including Bismarck, Gneisenau, Scharnhorst, Tirpitz and other big ships in over 300 photos.
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Covers all of the main German battleships of WWII, including Bismarck, Gneisenau, Scharnhorst, Tirpitz and other big ships in over 300 photos.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent overview of an interesting topic,
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This review is from: The German Navy at War: Vol. I The Battleships (Hardcover)
Breyer covers a subject about which not much has been previously written, and accompanies the text with some wonderful and rare photos. Those who are students of WWII, and who want to know more about the concept of The Fleet in Being, and the Kriegsmarine's application of it, will learn from, and enjoy, this book. Highly recommended, especially for collectors of WWII naval history.
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German Navy : Amazing History,
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This review is from: The German Navy at War: Vol. I The Battleships (Hardcover)
When we talk of the history of German military during WWII, most part crosses our mind is about German Blitzkrieg in which the Panzer and Luftwaffe took the leading role. But few told us about German Navy, except U-Boat, which has planted an incorrect impreesion in our mind that it seems that Germany had no force on the surface of water. And few of us are acquainted with the once famous operations such like "Operation Juno" or "Operation Berlin". Armed with the service in the Kriegsmarine in WWII as his rarely strong background of the author, this book comes to fill the blank. After briefling the gloomy background caused by the harsh and strict Treaty of Versailles imposed by the victors in 1919, the author unfolds the develpement of big ships of German Navy chronically in which politics, economy, diplomatic and military concern took their important parts in it, listing all the ships being laid down, launchd, complexion and commissioned year by year, detailing all the rich data of each big ship such as their tonnage and caliber of the guns, displaying all the magnificent plans of the German Navy built-up one by one, especially the most grand and formidable Z-Plan which would propel Germany to emerge as the greatest sea power in the world. The author narrats all the operations the battleships participated during the war : Victories, the astonishing victories, and the defeats, the tragedies after putting up a most heroic fight against the crushing superiority enemy. Thinking of the superiority of the mighty British Navy at that time, readers will scarcely not feel that the success of the Geramn striking force operating on the Atlantic were all the more amazing. If readers keep the fact of the supeiority British fleet in mind, they will be hardly not astounded by the operation : "Cerberus", which against practically all rules in the art of warfare, in which the large squadron consisted of two battleships, Scharnhorst and her sister-ship Gneisenau, and heavy cruiser Prinze Eugen, escorted by destroyers and torpedo boats and covered by Luftwaffe, boldly and successfully with high speed returned home from Brest by dashing through the English Channel right under the nose of Britian who was completely caught napping until the whole units was passing the Strait of Dover when the possibility to mount effective attack was past, for which incident the British public complained with understanding indignation that "Nothing more mortifying...has happended in Home waters since the 17th-Century"! Readers can not be without surprised when they are informed by the author that at the time when the war broke out, Geramn Navy possessed only two battleships, two heavy and six light cruisers, plus 34 destroyers and torpedo boats and 57 submarines, the force was far weaker than its opponents : The mighty British Royal Navy alone in 1935 had had 15 battleships, 6 aircraft carriers, 19 heavy cruisers, 36 light cruisers, 169 destroyers and 54 submarines! not mentioning the also powerful French Fleet! Nor will the readers not feel suprised when their eyes fix on the beautiful photos of Graf Zeppelin, the sole German aircraft carrier which was launched in 1938, but did not completed until 1942, which will correct our wrong impression that German did not build aircraft carrier; while as the pages running, the puzzle hanging in our mind of why this carier never shown herself on the stage of the war will be lefted. Besides all these above, the author also discloses the important role that Hitler played on the rise and fall of German Navy : It was he who promoted to restore German Navy by successfully getting rid of the yoke of the Treaty of Versailles imposed on Germany, which made all the big ships built possible and legallized and all the masterpiece of navy plans blossom, by boarding battleships and by attending the ceremony of the new ships being launched, by ratifying all the plans of ships built; however it also was he who paved the way of the fall of the German Navy, mostly in 1943, by ordering cessation of all repairs of Gneisenau at the beginning of 1943 which made one of the only three battleships out off the stage of the war which served to further weaken the Navy, by stubbornly intervening the affairs of the Navy which led the downfall the Grand Admiral Raeder, by ordering all the large units under construction be halted. In short, I highly recommend this book which has provided readers full picture of the developement of big ships in German Navy history from 1935 to 1945 which intersts and benefits us who want to have whole accounts of German history during the war.
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A very comprehensive work . Fills a lot of voids and unknowns for the period,
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This review is from: The German Navy at War: Vol. I The Battleships (Hardcover)
This work by Siegfried Breyer and Gerhard Koop. Covers the German Capital ships from 1935 to 1945. Speaks of the shameful shackles placed on Germany after the Great War. And how the German Navy sufferered under those shackles.. Starts out wity ships that were almost vintage in 1933. And go's on to describe how the limitations to weight and armorment were circumvented by the German Navy. Right under the noses of the powerd who were supposed to be keeping a check on Germany's Naval Forces. The strengths and the weaknesses of each sip. and the German Myth of invinceability prpogated by the Prpogandist J. Goebels. In perpetrating this myth. Many people only think of the Battleship Bismarck as Germans Crowning achievement.
True in some respects but not all. The book is written in a way. That the average Arm Chair Admiral can follow. And is filled with many unknown facts. Such as The Naval General Staff felt if war was going to come to Germany. How they wished it would be slowed or even abated until 1950 1955 being the better date. By this Time? Had this happened? Germany would have had the newest and most Dangerous and powerdfull fleet in the World. This book as stnningly clear pictures of all Germanys Capital shiops and what became of them that remained after the War. Each ships history is discussed. Each Ships flaws are discussed. And each new ships innovations are discussed. Had Germany not gone to War in 1939? and waited until her fleet arm was modernized? It would have been terrible for the Freedom loving nations around the World. A.Hitler did not however. Understand the Navy. He often was heard saying that "On land, I am a warrior. On sea? I am a coward".....He misused the Germany Navy and after the loss of the Grap Spee and Bismarck. He ordered the German Navy Capital Ships to Stand down. No longer would they be used against the Royal Navy. Germany had other battleships in her arsenal which not much have been written abouit such as the DKM Tirpitz, The DKM Schgranhorst, The DKM Blutcher,. This book is a very well written and presented work. A must have for the Arm Chair Historian. Or anyone else who has in intrest in the German Navy. I higghly recommend it. You will not be dissatisfied.. Thank You
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