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The German Navy at War 1935-1945, Vol. 1: The Battleships Hardcover – April 1, 1990

by Siegfried Breyer (Author), Gerhard Koop (Author)

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Covers the ships, commanders, harbors, bases, uniforms and insignia of the U-Boot Waffe in over 270 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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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Schiffer Publishing Ltd.; 1st edition (April 1, 1990)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0887402208
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0887402203
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches

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Albuquerque

A Great Book to read on the German Navy of World War Two!!

Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2017

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The book is very fascinating with the photographs of the various ships!! Some of the illustration are new to me and the clarity is most astonishing! The History of each vessel has been very interesting plus the Charts of Construction of various Classes of vessels is very informative! Over all I am pleased with my purchase of this book!! I love that this book is a Hard Cover Back Book for durability !! Amazon the price for this book was in line to the quality of the material used to produce this book!! Kudos to AMAZON!!

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2018

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Many unusual photos. Recommend.

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Chris Sterling

The Third Reich at sea . . .

Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2018

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This is a useful collection of photos (and marks the first volume of a series covering all types of German naval vessels), many of them not published here before. Breyer is the recognized authority on battleships of all countries. The photos, generally good and on point, are supported with in-depth captions. After a survey of the German navy up to 1934, the book takes a chronological approach to and through the war. A useful color section depicts selected ships and naval flags. Great and authentic material covers all battleships (including "pocket" type), cruisers and aircraft carriers (the latter never entered service).

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2015

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This book had some wonderful pictures and I enjoy reading about ships of this time period.

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Hong Wu

German Navy : Amazing History

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2002

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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William J. Reinheimer

Excellent overview of an interesting topic

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2006

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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