Format:
Online-Ressource (ix, 349 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781612512693
Content:
The only comparative analysis available of the great navies of World War I, this work studies the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, the German Kaiserliche Marine, the United States Navy, the French Marine Nationale, the Italian Regia Marina, the Austro-Hungarian Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine, and the Imperial Russian Navy to demonstrate why the war was won, not in the trenches, but upon the waves. It explains why these seven fleets fought the way they did and why the war at sea did not develop as the admiralties and politicians of 1914 expected.After discussing each navy's goals and
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-336) and index
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Austria-Hungary: die Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine / by Zvonimir FreivogelFrance: la Marine Nationale / by Jean Moulin -- Germany: Kaiserliche Marine / by Dr. Peter Schenk with Axel Niestlé and Dieter Thomaier -- Great Britain: the Royal Navy / by John Roberts -- Italy: Regia Marina / by Enrico Cernuschi and Vincent P. O'Hara -- Russia: Rossiiskii Imperatorskii Flot / by Stephen McLaughlin -- United States: the U.S. Navy / by Trent Hone -- Other navies / by Vincent P. O'Hara and Richard Worth.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 132254798X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1612512690
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1612510825
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781322547985
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781612512693
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781612510828
Additional Edition:
Print version To Crown the Waves : The Great Navies of the First World War
Language:
English
