Title: "Luxury" fleet : the Imperial German Navy, 1888-1918 /
Authors: Herwig, Holger H.
Publisher: Ashfield Press,
Year: 1987
Subjects: Germany. History.; Germany History, Naval.
Contents: Modest Beginnings: The Prussian/German Naval Tradition to 1888 -- Kaiser Wilhelm II: The Years of Hope and Misdirection, 1888-1898 -- The "New Course": Alfred 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 --