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"Luxury fleet" : the Imperial German Navy, 1888-1918
- Title
- "Luxury fleet" : the Imperial German Navy, 1888-1918 / Holger H. Herwig.
- Author
- Herwig, Holger H.
- Publication
- London ; Boston : Allen & Unwin, 1980.
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Details
- Description
- 314 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Naval history.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [292]-300.
- Contents
- Modest beginnings: the Prussian/German naval tradition to 1888 -- Kaiser Wilhelm II: the years of hope and misdirection, 1888-1898 -- The "new course": Alred V. Tirpitz, architect of the battle fleet, 1897-1905 -- The dreadnought challenge: the master plan goes awry, 1905-1911 -- "We have them up against the wall": denouement, 1912-1914 -- A place in the sun: the German colonial empire and the navy, 1884-1914 -- "Men fight, not ships": the personnel of the imperial German navy -- August 1914: the war that came too soon -- Jutland 1916: missed opportunity or fortunate escape? -- "Museum of experiments": the end of the battleship era, 1914-1918 -- "Between the Thames and Helgoland": German naval policies, 1917-1918 -- The sun sets: Scapa flow, 21 June 1919.
- ISBN
- 0049430238
- 9780049430235
- LCCN
- 80482767
- OCLC
- ocm06418573
- 6418573
- SCSB-44837
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library