German Battlecruisers of World War One

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Автор: Gary Staff

Название: German Battlecruisers of World War One: Their Design, Construction and Operations

Издательство: Seaforth Publishing

Год: 2014

Формат: EPUB

Страниц: 320

Размер: 79 Mb

This is the most comprehensive, English-language study of the German Imperial Navy's battlecruisers that served in the First World War. Known as Panzerkreuzer, literally "armored cruiser," the eight ships of the class were to be involved in several early North Sea skirmishes before the great pitched battle of Jutland where they inflicted devastating damage on the Royal Navy's battlecruiser fleet. This book details their design and construction, and traces the full service history of each ship, recounting their actions, drawing largely from first-hand German sources and official documents, many previously unpublished in English.