Ottoman Navy Warships 1914-1918 (Osprey New Vanguard 227)

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Автор: Ryan K. Noppen

Название: Ottoman Navy Warships 1914-1918 (Osprey New Vanguard 227)

Издательство: Osprey Publishing

Год: 2015

Формат: True PDF

Страниц: 49

Размер: 7 Mb

Язык: English

Спасибо: kapitankarl

At the start of the 20th century the Ottoman Navy was a shadow of its former might, a reflection of the empire as a whole - the "Sick Man of Europe". Years of defeat, nepotism, and neglect had left the Ottoman Navy with a mix of obsolete vessels, whilst the list of prospective enemies was ever-growing. An increasing Russian naval presence in the Black Sea and the alarming emergence of Italy and Greece as regional Naval powers proved beyond all doubt that intensive modernization was essential, indeed, the fate of the Empire as a naval power depended on it. So the Ottoman Navy looked to the ultimate naval weapon of the age, the dreadnought, two of which were ordered from the British.