Mittler und Sohn, 1903. — 286 p. One example is the war in China that took place under German supreme command in 1900-1901 as a result of the Boxer Rebellion. Although the German action in China occurred on a modest scale when compared with the German colonial wars in Africa and the United States' engagement in the Philippines, German behavior in China displayed some important...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 270 p. Recounts one of the 20th century's strangest and most stirring sea adventures -- the successful round-the-globe expedition of the First World War German commerce raider and minelayer Wolf. Breaking the Allied blockade, and disguised as a merchant ship, it sank 135,000 tons of Allied shipping. Her story, as told by an Australian radio...
Seaforth Publishing, 2012. — 192 p. — ISBN: 1848321422. For half a century German warship camouflage has proven a mystery to enthusiasts and model makers due to widespread destruction of naval archives at the end of WWII and ad hoc application of 'unofficial' schemes in theaters like Norway. This first of a two-volume work is based on close examination of all available photos,...
Patrick Stephens Limited, 1982. — 98 p. This book is relatively short, at 98 pages. Thirteen of the 98 pages consist of text and the rest of the book consists of photographs. The thirteen pages provide a short but decent history of the topic – destroyers, minesweeper and minelayers, and torpedo boats. It should be noted that torpedo boats, as defined in this book, do not...
Hamlyn, 1974. — 200 p. For the naval enthusiast, this belongs on your bookshelf. Bekker incorporates many archival photos and knowledge of tactics used in various phases of the naval war conducted above and below the seas, including the problems of battleship technology, development of the U-Boat Waffe. Chapters on artic warfare, the Mediterranean operations, U-Boats in distant...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 192 p. The defeat that Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock suffered at Coronel in 1914 at the hands of Maximilian Graf von Spee, one of Germany’s most brilliant naval commanders, was the most humiliating blow to British naval prestige since the eighteenth century and a defeat that had to be avenged immediately. On 8 December 1914, the German squadron...
Naval Institute Press, 2011. — 317 p. In August 1943 the Luftwaffe began using radio-controlled anti-ship glide bombs, and within weeks they had sunk one battleship, crippled another, wrecked two cruisers, and destroyed numerous merchant ships. Yet a year later the Germans abandoned their use, defeated in part by electronic systems to jam the radio links that guided the bombs....
Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2011. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 1848845529, ISBN13: 978-1848845527. On mid-Summer's Day 1919 the interned German Grand Fleet was scuttled by their crews at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands despite a Royal Navy guard force. Greatly embarrassed, the Admiralty nevertheless confidently stated that none of the ships would ever be recovered. Had it not been...
Schiffer Publishing, 1989. — 52 p. Shortly after the war began, a German publisher produced so·called "fleet wall charts" with drawings of the most important German warship types of the time. Among them was a portrayal of the aircraft carrier GRAF ZEPPELIN. This was, probably knowingly and deliberately, inaccurate and presented an essentially different, in fact a false silhouette....
Weltbild-Verl, 1994. — 189 p. Deutsche Kriegsmarine Band 3 : 1935-1945 - третья часть фотоальбомов по немецкому флоту 30-40х годов. В основном эта книга посвящена подводным лодкам. Большое количество фотографий и несколько схем различных типов немецких субмарин. Есть страница с фото наиболее выдающихся немецких подводных асов. Фотографии поврежденных в бою подводных лодок ,...
Weltbild Verlag, 1994. — 192 p. Die Deutsche Kriegsmarine 1935-1945 Band 4 - четвертая часть в серии фотоальбомов по немецкому флоту Второй мировой войны. Включает в себя тяжелые артиллерийские корабли от крейсера до линкора. Показано развитие крупных кораблей Кригсмарине , в том числе знаменитый «план Z» адмирала Редера , по которому Германия к 1946 году должна была иметь...
Weltbild-Verl, 1994. — 185 p. Deutsche Kriegsmarine Band 2 1935-45 - книга-фотоальбом о немецком флоте периода Второй мировой войны и перед ней. Вторая часть посвящена легким надводным кораблям - эсминцы , миноносцы , торпедные и сторожевые катера , тральщики , охотники за подводными лодками , блокадопрорыватели и прочие вспомогательные единицы флота. Mit diesem umfangreichen...
Freidberg: Podzon-Pallas-Verlag, 1990. — 50 S. — (Marine-Arsenal mit internationalen Flottennachrichten und Marinerundblick. Band 11). — ISBN: 3-7909-0370-1.
Podzun-Pallas, 1995. — 52 p. — (Marine-Arsenal, 30). Данная книга посвящена вспомогательным и специальным единицам Кригсмарине во Второй Мировой войне. Парусные учебные корабли типа Gorch Fock. Учебные артиллерийские корабли Bremse , Brummer , Drache , Mars. Специальные флотские танкеры снабжения типа Dithmarschen , сыгравшие огромную роль в действиях немецких рейдеров в...
Perrin, 2014. — 215 p. S'il existe des récits épiques sur les combats des sous-marins allemands, il n'existait pas, jusqu'à cet ouvrage, d'histoire générale et sérieuse de la marine du IIIe Reich. En septembre 1939, la marine allemande, la Kriegsmarine, comme on l'appelait depuis 1935, entrait dans une guerre à laquelle elle n'avait pas eu le temps de se préparer. Face à...
Naval Institute Press, 2021. — 369 p. Genesis of the Grand Fleet: The Admiralty, Germany, and the Home Fleet, 1896–1914 tells the story of the prewar predecessor to the Royal Navy’s war-winning Grand Fleet: the Home Fleet. Established in early 1907 by First Sea Lord Sir John Fisher, the Home Fleet combined an active core of powerful armored warships with a unification of the...
Histoire and Collections, 2006. — 177 p. Jean-Philippe Dallies-Labourdette and Bruno Pautigny book S-Boote, does a very good job of telling the story of the German Navy's version of MTB's/PT-Boats (note: S-Boote were bigger, initially more heavily armed, and used more effectively than their allied equivalent). In this book, the authors tell us about the initial development of...
Praeger, 2001. — 222 p. They were the deadliest ships of World War II—nine German commerce raiders disguised as peaceful cargo ships, flying the flags of neutral and allied nations. In reality these heavily armed warships roamed the world’s oceans at will, like twentieth-century pirates. They struck unsuspecting freighters and tankers out of the darkness of night or from behind a...
Pen and Sword, 2001. — 216 p. Beware Raiders! is the story of two very different German surface raiders and the havoc they caused amongst Allied shipping in the Second World War. One was the 8-inch gun cruiser Admiral Hipper, fast, powerful and Navy-manned; the other a converted merchantman, Hansa Line's Kandelfels armed with a few 5.9s, crewed largely by reservists, and...
Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus, 1994. — 193 S. Mit diesem umfangreichen Bildband über die deutsche Kriegsmarine erhält der Leser in einer großen Gesamtschau einen umfassenden Überblick über diese Bemühungen. In zahlreichen detaillierten Abbildungen und ansprechenden Texten werden die Entwicklung der deutschen Flotte, ihr Einsatz in den sechs Kriegsjahren und der Verbleib der...
Weltbild-Verl, 1994. — 193 p. Deutsche Kriegsmarine Band 1: 1935-1945 - книга-фотоальбом о немецком флоте периода Второй мировой войны и перед ней. Первая часть посвящена тяжелым артиллерийским кораблям. Представлено большое количество фотографий немецких крупных кораблей - линкоров «Бисмарк», «Тирпиц», «Шарнхорст», «Гнейзенау», карманные линкоры, тяжелые и легкие крейсера....
Seaforth Publishing, 2007. — 208 p. A detailed narrative of S-boat, or schnellboot, actions during World War II in all the theatres where they were deployed. The author, describes, with the help of a multitude of maps and photographs, all the incidents that these 45-knot fast attack craft were involved in. The German motor torpedo boat (German: S-boot, English: E-boat) was a...
Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. — 56 p. The development of airpower can be traced to three key elements: thought, organization and technology. The Luftwaffe of World War II is no different. This paper will examine the Luftwaffe’s thought, organization and technology as it pertains to maritime operations, or as the modern United States Air Force (USAF) calls...
Naval Institute Press, 1990. — 258 p. Erich Groner's highly regarded book is, quite simply, the most detailed and authoritative reference work ever published on the subject. It provides data on the design, construction, dimensions, machinery and armament, and comments on the performance, seakeeping, and service history for around 10,000 ships and craft.
Naval Institute Press, 1991. — 253 p. Erich Groner's highly regarded book is, quite simply, the most detailed and authoritative reference work ever published on the subject. It provides data on the design, construction, dimensions, machinery and armament, and comments on the performance, seakeeping, and service history for around 10,000 ships and craft. Including U-boats and...
Routledge, 2002. — 220 p. This volume is a compendium of four Battle Summaries or Naval Staff Histories produced soon after the war by the Naval Historical Branch of the Admiralty. Originally classified and designed for internal use only, these histories are published here for the first time. The documents in this book cover the actions that resulted in the sinking or...
London: Routledge, 2014. — 201 p. Originally published in 1980 ‘Luxury’ Fleet (the phrase was Winston Churchill’s) was the first history of the Imperial German navy from 1888 to 1918. After tracing the historical background to German naval ambitions, the first two sections of the book analyse Admiral Tirpitz’s programme of building a battle fleet strong enough to engage the Royal...
Little Brown and Company, 1976. — 323 p. In 1889, ships from two ebullient newcomers to the world's colonial scene encountered each other in Samoa. The meeting signaled the beginning of Imperial Germany's astonishing state and naval policies toward the United States--a volatile relationship shaken from the first by misunderstanding, later poisoned by jealousy, and twice...
Pen and Sword, 2008. — 194 p. Hitler's Armada examines the aborted German invasion of 1940 in a fresh and original manner by looking past the myths and legends which have subsequently surrounded it, in order to arrive at significant new conclusions by referring back to the actual events. The book presents fascinating detail of Hitler's Operation SEALION and, by study of its...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2014. — 319 p. The Kaiser’s Pirates is a dramatic and little-known story of World War I, when the actions of a few men shaped the fate of nations. By 1914 Germany had ships and sailors scattered across the globe, protecting its overseas colonies and “showing the flag” of its new Imperial Navy. After war broke out on August 4 there was no hope that they...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2014. — 319 p. The Kaiser’s Pirates is a dramatic and little-known story of World War I, when the actions of a few men shaped the fate of nations. By 1914 Germany had ships and sailors scattered across the globe, protecting its overseas colonies and “showing the flag” of its new Imperial Navy. After war broke out on August 4 there was no hope that they...
Hamburg Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, 1979. — 200 p. Die Liste der Namen deutscher Kriegsschiffe (A-B der Band 1) enthält alle Schiffe der folgenden Marinen: Seestreitkräfte des Deutschen Bundes einschließlich der provisorischen Zentralgewalt von 1848/49 und aller Teilstaaten einschließlich Österreichs bis 1866. Marine des Norddeutschen Bundes. Streitkräfte des Deutschen...
Hamburg Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, 1979. — 164 p. Die Liste der Namen deutscher Kriegsschiffe (C-G der Band 2) enthält alle Schiffe der folgenden Marinen: Seestreitkräfte des Deutschen Bundes einschließlich der provisorischen Zentralgewalt von 1848/49 und aller Teilstaaten einschließlich Österreichs bis 1866. Marine des Norddeutschen Bundes. Streitkräfte des Deutschen...
Hamburg Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, 1982. — 164 p. Die Liste der Namen deutscher Kriegsschiffe (T-Z der Band 6) enthält alle Schiffe der folgenden Marinen: Seestreitkräfte des Deutschen Bundes einschließlich der provisorischen Zentralgewalt von 1848/49 und aller Teilstaaten einschließlich Österreichs bis 1866. Marine des Norddeutschen Bundes. Streitkräfte des Deutschen...
Lyon Publishing, 1989. — 136 p. A very interesting book by Prince Franz Joseph von Hohenzollern-Emden about his time on the cruise on the German Cruiser Emden (in 1914), from the outbreak of the Great War to the ships demise and his experience as as prisoner of war. Excellent book. very well detailed. a lot of information about every prey of the Emden. a must have for every fan...
Rutgers University Press, 1969. — 361 p. The German Navy in Peace and War. The Social and Political Conflict in the Navy. The Origin of the Enlisted Men’s Movement. The August 1917 Mutiny: Strike or Naval Rebellion? Naval Justice: Fair Trial or Judicial Murder? From Mutiny to Revolution: The Last Year of War. Admirals’ Rebellion or Sailors’ Mutiny? The Collapse of the Navy. Notes.
Pinnacle Books, 1977. — 228 p. Karl August Nerger (1875–1947) was a naval officer of the Imperial German Navy in World War I, who achieved fame and recognition during the war for his command of the auxiliary cruiser SMS Wolf. Nerger was born in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Nerger had entered the Navy as a cadet in April 1893, and as a junior officer participated in the China...
Good Press, 2020. — 190 p. The creation of German modern navy represented the revival of ancient hopes and aspirations. To those ambitions, in their unaggressive form, her neighbours would have taken little exception; Germany had become a great commercial Power with colonies overseas, and it was natural that she should desire to possess a navy corresponding to her growing...
Naval Institute Press, 2017. — 288 p. The Luftwaffe and the War at Sea is a collection of fascinating accounts written by German military officers--both Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe--about the naval war in the air in the North Atlantic and around Great Britain. The writers include such well-known German names as Grossadmiral Karl Doenitz, Kontreadmiral Gerhard Wagner, General der...
Zenith Press, 2001. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 0760310262, ISBN13: 978-0760310267 This pictorial record explains the Kriegsmarines World War I roots and its rebuilding in contravention to the Treaty of Versailles before going on to examine the rebirth of the German U-boat fleet, the use of commerce raiders like the Atlantis and Komet, the naval campaigns in which the German navy...
Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 256 p. In 1916, a three-masted windjammer bearing Norwegian colors sailed out of a quiet anchorage in Germany, loaded with cargo and apparently bound for Australia. Her true mission was quite different. The ship was, in fact, the SMS Seeadler, commanded by swashbuckling German aristocrat Felix von Luckner. Over an epic voyage, he used cunning and...
Seaforth Publishing, 2019. — 320 p. On 21 June 1919 the ships of the German High Seas Fleet—interned at Scapa Flow since the Armistice—began to founder taking their British custodians completely by surprise. In breach of agreed terms the fleet dramatically scuttled itself in a well-planned operation that consigned nearly half a million tons and 54 of 72 ships to the bottom of...
Bernard & Graefe Verlag, 1997. — 176 p. Tarnanstriche für deutsche Schiffe entwarf zu Beginn des Zweiten Weltkrieges individuell das Technische Amt der Kriegsmarinedienststelle (KMD) Hamburg. Später bemühte sich die Marine-Gasschutz- und Luftschutz-Inspektion um die Entwicklung von Tarnmustern auf wissenschaftlich-theoretischer Basis. Doch die Auswahl eines dieser Muster, die Wahl...
Indiana University Press, 2011. — 604 p. Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz (1849–1930) was the principal force behind the rise of the German Imperial Navy prior to World War I, challenging Great Britain’s command of the seas. As State Secretary of the Imperial Naval Office from 1897 to 1916, Tirpitz wielded great power and influence over the national agenda during that crucial...
Mittler & Sohn, 1997. — 156 S. Der Autor bezieht die Anfänge der Bundeswehr in seine Darstellung mit ein: Vom Einverständnis der Alliierten zum Aufbau des Bundesgrenzschutzes See im Jahre 1951 bis zur heutigen Struktur und Bewaffnung der Schnellbootflottille der Bundesmarine. Fast alle Schnellboote der Bundesmarine - auch die bereits außer Dienst gestellten - werden mit einem Foto...
Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 78 p. A superbly illustrated new account of how Germany's High Seas Fleet was built, operated and fought, as it challenged the world's most powerful navy in World War I. Seven years before the outbreak of World War I, the Imperial German Navy rebranded its Home Fleet as the Hochseeflotte, or High Seas Fleet. It was a force designed to take on the...
Монография. — Seaforth Publishing, 2014. — 224 р. На английском языке. Военные корабли времен Второй мировой войны немецких военно-морских сил являются одним из самых популярных предметов в истории военно-морского флота с почти бесчисленным количеством книг, посвященных им. Однако, для краткого, но авторитетного краткого изложения истории проектирования и карьеры основных...
Seaforth Publishing, 2014. — 331 p. The warships of the World War II era German Navy are among the most popular subject in naval history with an almost uncountable number of books devoted to them. However, for a concise but authoritative summary of the design history and careers of the major surface ships it is difficult to beat a series of six volumes written by Gerhard Koop and...
Seaforth Publishing, 2014. — 224 p. The warships of the World War II era German Navy are among the most popular subject in naval history with an almost uncountable number of books devoted to them. However, for a concise but authoritative summary of the design history and careers of the major surface ships it is difficult to beat a series of six volumes written by Gerhard Koop and...
Wien: Publisher A. Hölder, 1899. — 558 р. Inhalts-übersicht: Einleitung Die к. und к. Flotte Aufgaben und Personal der Kriegs-Marine Im Escadre-Verbande Die Indienststellung Im Hafen In See Krieg im Frieden Unter Dampf Eine Missionsreise S.M. Schiffes "Kaiserin Elisabeth" Von der kretensischen Blockade Unter Segeln Das getakelte Schiff Eine Kreuzung im Mittelmeerc Marine-Stationen...
Hamburg: Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, 2002. — 278 p.
Противоминные корабли 1939-1945 Таинственные миссии полуночи эскадрилья с большим количеством иллюстраций
Wien: Verlag des K. und K. Reichs-Kriegs-Ministeriums, Marine-Section, 1891. — 484 s. Durchaus abhängig von den einengenden Beschlüssen der Commerzialbehörden und nur in loser Verbindung mit dem durch glorreiche Thaten glänzenden Heere Österreichs gehalten, war der physisch unbedeutende. kaum einen bestimmten Namen führende Körper der „Triester Marine“ kurz nach der...
Seaforth Publishing, 2016. — 192 p. Second in "the most complete and authoritative set of books ever written on the color schemes used by the Kriegsmarine throughout World War II" (Great Models). This book completes a highly original and superbly illustrated two-volume survey of German naval camouflage and markings in the Nazi era. On first publication in 2012, the 1939-1941...
Pen and Sword, 2013. — 216 p. This compelling new study of the Battle of the River Plate (1939) focuses on Captain Hans Langsdorff, the commander of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee. Written from the German commander’s point of view, Miller provides a gripping narrative of his mission to prey on merchant shipping. Operating alone and thousands of miles away from home with no...
Koehlers Verlagsges, 2001. - 179 p. Ein ungewöhnliches Buch: Es besteht aus Erinnerungsfotos von Zeitzeugen und Schilderungen ihrer Erlebnisse am Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Die letzten 115 Tage seit dem Beginn der sowjetischen Großoffensive am 12. Januar 1945 werden wieder lebendig. Nach dem Erfolg von »Gesunken und verschollen« über die in der südwestlichen Ostsee in...
Naval Institute Press, 2011. — 342 p. The German Fleet at War relates the little-known history of the Kriegsmarine's surface fleet with a focus on the sixty-nine surface naval battles fought by Germany's major warships against the large warships of the British, French, American, Polish, Soviet, Norwegian and Greek navies. It emphasizes operational details but also paints a broad...
Frank Cass, 2004. — 228 p. This book is a comparative study of the evolution of the German navy in the second half of the nineteenth century. It examines the development of strategy, especially commerce-raiding, in comparison to what other navies were doing in this era of rapid technological change. It is not an insular history, merely listing ship rosters or specific events; it...
Lume Books, 2021. — 596 p. Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz was a major military commander in the Second World War. His name will always be associated with his attempt to cut Britain’s supply lines with U-boats deployed in mass ‘pack’ attacks on convoys in the Atlantic. Research in the German naval archives has allowed Peter Padfield to describe the evolution of the strategy and the...
Seaforth Publishing, 2019. — 384 p. The arduous development of a dedicated naval air arm for Germany's resurgent military was fraught with the kind of fierce inter-service rivalry that was rife throughout the turbulent history of the Third Reich. However, almost despite the odds, a small dedicated maritime strike force was assembled, germinating during the Spanish Civil War...
Seafort Publishing, 2020. — 448 p. This is the second volume of Lawrence Paterson's detailed account of all the Luftwaffe's naval operations during World War II. The first volume took the story up to 1942, and by the end of that year Hermann Gring's Reich Air Ministry had subsumed nearly every aspect of Wehrmacht maritime aviation. Kriegsmarine attempts to develop an...
Seaforth Publishing, 2017. — 352 p. This study of the Kriegsmarine's Sicherungsstreitkräfte, their security forces, fills a glaring gap in the study of the German navy in World War Two. This wide array of vessels included patrol boats, minesweepers, submarine hunters, barrage breakers, landing craft, minelayers and even the riverine flotilla that patrolled the Danube as it...
Pen and Sword, 2007. — 243 p. The Arctic convoys that sailed through the cold malevolent waters of the Barents Sea ran the gauntlet of German air and sea attacks as they struggled to transport vital supplies to Britain’s Russian allies. Convoy JW51B sailed in December 1942 with a small close escort of five destroyers, plus a reserve of two light cruisers, which shadowed the main...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2012. — 256 p. At the start of World War One the Imperial German Navy had a large number of surface warships deployed around the world. These posed a considerable threat to British mercantile interests, particularly the import of food and fuel supplies. Their elimination was a matter of urgency. This book covers the major actions and includes the following:...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2012. — 256 p. At the start of World War One the Imperial German Navy had a large number of surface warships deployed around the world. These posed a considerable threat to British mercantile interests, particularly the import of food and fuel supplies. Their elimination was a matter of urgency. This book covers the major actions and includes the...
Zebra Books, 1985. — 340 p. The Naval masterminds who led the Germans through World War II. Includes profiles on Admiral Karl Doenitz, who would become Hitler's successor; Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, a secret friend to the Allies who headed the vast network of Nazi intelligence; and Admiral Gunther Lutjens, who commanded the ill-fated Bismarck on her first and only run; and some...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1982. — 278 p. This work aims to constitute an objective analysis of a German World War I naval combat commander within his proper context, by closely defining both the military-technical and military-political milieux in which Franz Hipper operated. The description of Hipper’s actions in the battles of Dogger Bank and Jutland and his handling...
St. Martin's Press, 2014. — 258 p. The worst maritime disaster ever occurred during World War II, when more than 9,000 German civilians drowned. It went unreported. January 1945: The outcome of World War II has been determined. The Third Reich is in free fall as the Russians close in from the east. Berlin plans an eleventh-hour exodus for the German civilians trapped in the Red...
Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2017. — 132 p. Dieses Buch handelt von der Geschichte der Kreuzer der Deutschen Reichsmarine (sowie der späteren Kriegsmarine). Nach dem verlorenen Krieg war die deutsche Streitmacht zur See auf wenige hoffnungslos veraltete Schiffe beschränkt. Erst 1925 wurde mit der Emden ein erster Neubau in Dienst gestellt. Weitere Leichte...
Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2017. — 119 p. German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin was the lead ship in a class of two carriers of the same name ordered by the Kriegsmarine. She was the only aircraft carrier launched by Germany and represented part of the Kriegsmarine's attempt to create a well-balanced oceangoing fleet, capable of projecting German naval power...
Schiffer Military History, 1997. — 416 p. — ISBN-10 088740510X. The standard reference now revised and expanded. Dr. Robinson has opened up his vast photo archives to enhance this new edition of his classic work. Much of the new photographic material is published here for the first time.
Exisle Publishing, 2016. — 360 p. False Flags tells the epic untold story of German raider voyages to the South Seas during the early years of World War II. In 1940 the raiders Orion, Komet, Pinguin, and Kormoran left Germany and waged a "pirate war" in the South Seas as part of Germany's strategy to attack the British Empire's maritime trade on a global scale. Their...
Naval Institute Press, 2022. — 192 p. The Secret Projects of the German Kriegsmarine in World War II gives a comprehensive overview of advanced German naval building, and excitingly includes previously unseen, secret projects. The designs covered by the title are wide-ranging, from U-boats and hydrofoils, to submarines, explosive motorboats and even aircraft carriers. Not...
Naval Institute Press, 2022. — 192 p. The Secret Projects of the German Kriegsmarine in World War II gives a comprehensive overview of advanced German naval building, and excitingly includes previously unseen, secret projects. The designs covered by the title are wide-ranging, from U-boats and hydrofoils, to submarines, explosive motorboats and even aircraft carriers. Not...
Alpha Editions, 2020. — 398 p. Anglo-German naval rivalry before 1914 had been expected to culminate in a cataclysmic fleet action in the North Sea once war was declared, a battle upon which the outcome of the war would depend: yet the two fleets met only once, at Jutland in 1916, and the battle was far from conclusive. In his own account of the war in the North Sea, first...
Sutton Publishing, 2002. - 274 p. During the Second World War, the German Navy became a much feared adversary both on and beyond the high seas, with its marauding U-boat 'wolf-packs' coming close to defeating Britain in the Battle of the Atlantic. Here, Jack Mallmann-Showell examines the different roles of the Fleet, and its organization and training activities during the war...
Warsawa: AJ-Press, 2011. — 113 p. — (Gunpower №17). Книга посвящена морской артиллерии гитлеровской Германии. Первый том посвящён крупнокалиберным системам, от 406мм (разработанной для перспективных линкоров) до 203мм, использовавшейся на крейсерах. Текст на двух языках (польском и английском), фотографии, чертежи, рисунки башенных установок в разных видах. Для любителей...
Warsawa: AJ-Press, 2011. — 113 p. — (Gunpower №17). Книга посвящена морской артиллерии гитлеровской Германии. Первый том посвящён крупнокалиберным системам, от 406мм (разработанной для перспективных линкоров) до 203мм, использовавшейся на крейсерах. Текст на двух языках (польском и английском), фотографии, чертежи, рисунки башенных установок в разных видах. Для любителей...
Warsawa: AJ-Press, 2011. — 114 p. — (Gunpower №19). Книга посвящена морской артиллерии гитлеровской Германии. Первый том посвящён орудиям среднего калибра - 8,8cm и 10.5cm, использовавшейся на всех кораблях германского флота. Текст на двух языках (польском и английском), фотографии, чертежи, рисунки башенных установок в разных видах. Для любителей военно-морской истории и...
Warsawa: AJ-Press, 2010. — 220 p. — (Gunpower №20). — ISBN 978-83-7237-217-8. Книга посвящена морской артиллерии гитлеровской Германии. Четвёртый том посвящён зенитным орудиям калибра 20 мм, 30 мм, 37 мм и 40 мм, использовавшейся на всех кораблях германского флота. Текст на двух языках (польском и английском), фотографии, чертежи, рисунки башенных установок в разных видах. Для...
Warsawa: AJ-Press, 2005. — 116 p. — (Gunpower №18). — ISBN 83-7237-170-9. Книга посвящена морской артиллерии гитлеровской Германии. Второй том посвящён системам среднего калибра, 127 - 150 мм, использовавшейся на крейсерах. Текст на двух языках (польском и английском), фотографии, чертежи, рисунки башенных установок в разных видах. Для любителей военно-морской истории и истории...
Naval Institute Press , 2011. — 316 p. From the huge 15-inch guns carried by the Bismarck to the smallest machine gun used by coastal forces, this comprehensive encyclopedia covers every German artillery piece mounted afloat during World War II. All marks and variations of these weapons are described individually, including their mountings and the ammunition fired, along with...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 184 p. The Schnellbootwaffe was created in the early 1930s, before the Second World War, in concurrence with the regenerated Kriegsmarine, and young officers, most of whom learned their craft in the old Imperial Navy, would take responsibility for the operational use of these revolutionary vessels. Working with the naval engineers of Lürssen...
Pen and Sword, 2009. — 192 p. In late 1917, the Russians, despite the revolution, were still willing to continue the war against Germany. This is an account of Operation Albion, the highly successful sea borne operation launched by the Germans to change their minds. The Baltic Islands were pivotal for the defense of the Finnish Gulf and St. Petersburg, so their capture was...
Pen & Sword Maritime, 2011. — 224 p. The cruisers of the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserlische Marine) were active throughout the First World War and saw action all around the globe, tying up valuable Allied naval resources out of all proportion to their number. Drawing on first-hand accounts and original research in German archives, the author here describes in detail some of...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2016. — 208 p. On 31 May 1916 The German High Seas Fleet clashed with the Royal Navy in the North Sea. The ensuing Battle of Jutland, known to the Germans as the Skaggerak Battle (der Skagerrakschlacht), was the most significant naval action of the First World War. Although not tactically decisive, the strategic result was that British naval supremacy in...
Signal Publications, 2004. — 52 p. — (Warships). Outstanding book on the German Battleships of WW 2. Great photographs as well as line drawings and several color plates of the battleships. History on each ship also briefly provided. A must have for the German naval fan. Also a hard to find book as well.
Sydney: Murdoch Books, 2011. - 238 p. What drives men at sea to commit mutiny-to murderously rebel against superior officers and risk their lives? Mutinies is an exhaustive investigation of twenty-three of the world's most infamous uprisings at sea, from the earliest days of ocean exploration to the present. Investigating the circumstances and motivations that drive seamen to...
Naval Institute Press, 1995. — 328 p. For the Germans, the Battle of Jutland in 1916 should have been a simple set piece that lured the British Grand Fleet into a lethal trap. Instead, it turned into a confused, rambling conflict. The Royal Navy suffered higher losses, but the German fleet never again ventured out of harbor to fight. Using previously unseen records, action...
Thomas Crowell Company, 1969. — 296 p. This book on German navy in World War II was first published in the late 1960s. The text is divided into 9 chapters. The best part of the book is its opening section. Here author traces rebirth of German navy after the scuttle of High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow. Then he proceeds to examine the obstacles it had to surmount before emerging as...
Vieweg Teubner Verlag, 1934. — 291 p. Ludwig von Schröder (1854-1933) was a Prussian officer and Admiral during World War I and a recipient of the Pour le Mérite with Oak Leaves. Schröder entered the newly established Imperial Naval Service in May 1871. Prior to World War I, he served on several different ships and commanded the Blitz, as well as the training vessel the Moltke. He...
Classic Warships Publishing, 2004. — 74 p. Type VII U-boats were the most common type of German World War II U-boat. 703 boats were built by the end of the war. The lone surviving example, U-995, is on display at the Laboe Naval Memorial located in Laboe, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Da Capo Press, 2016. — 312 p. Built in 1927, the German ocean liner SS Cap Arcona was the greatest ship since the RMS Titanic and one of the most celebrated luxury liners in the world. When the Nazis seized control in Germany, she was stripped down for use as a floating barracks and troop transport. Later, during the war, Hitler's minister, Joseph Goebbels, cast her as the...
Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 256 p. Hamstrung at first by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, during the 1930s, the German Navy underwent a programme of rearmament in defiance of the restrictions, building modern warships under limitations which forced technological innovation. Submarines were strictly prohibited by the treaty, and yet, following years of covert development,...
Osprey Publishing, 2009 - 48 p.
Despite the popularity of the U-boats and larger surface vessels like the Bismarck and the Graf Spee, the vast majority of vessels within the Kriegsmarine served in the coastal forces. Although less frequently mentioned, these smaller ships gave crucial service during the war and continued to serve decades after VE day, either in the German Navy...
Seaforth Publishing, 2015. — 320 p. This important new work describes how the Imperial German Navy, which had expanded to become one of the great maritime forces in the world, second only to the Royal Navy, proved, with the exception of its submarines, to be largely ineffective throughout the years of conflict. The impact of this impotence had a far-reaching effect upon the...
Arthur Barker, 1973. — 239 p. "The Collapse of Power: Mutiny in the Seas Fleet" is a very well written, compact and concise book about the mutinies in the German navy during the Great War. The author, David Woodward, explains the reasons that fostered the discontent, how the officers failed to deal with the growing disobedience and the courses and consequences of the mutinies...
Wien: A. Hartleben’s Verlag, 1887. — 104 s. Mit der Übernahme des Marine-Commandos seitens des hochverdienstvollen Vice-Admirals Maximilian Freiherrn Daublebsky von Sterneck und Ehrenstein trat die Marine mehr in den Vordergrund, als dies bis dahin der Fall gewesen. Die der grössten Anerkennung würdige Thütigkeit der gegenwärtigen Merineleitung zur Hebung der vaterländischen...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2004. - 104 с.
Воспоминания бывшего офицера германского ВМФ о борьбе немецкого военно-морского флота и превосходящих сил противника во время Второй мировой войны. Автор рассказывает о морских сражениях и обо всех типах кораблей, участвовавших в них, - от гигантов линкоров до сверхмалых субмарин. Место действия - Атлантика, Балтика и Черное море.
М.: Центрполиграф, 2004. — 104 с. Воспоминания бывшего офицера германского ВМФ о борьбе немецкого военно-морского флота и превосходящих сил противника во время Второй мировой войны. Автор рассказывает о морских сражениях и обо всех типах кораблей, участвовавших в них, - от гигантов линкоров до сверхмалых субмарин. Место действия - Атлантика, Балтика и Черное море.
Львов: ТриО, 1992. — 88 с.
Настоящее издание представляет собой справочник, в котором содержатся обобщенные данные о кораблях и судах военно-морских и торговых флотов Германии, Финляндии, Румынии и других стран фашистского блока, потерянных по разным причинам на морских театрах военных действий Великой Отечественной войны. Издание охватывает, потери противника, понесенные им в...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2006. — 254 с. В этой книге рассказывается о немецком вспомогательном крейсере НК-33, завоевавшем славу под именем "Пингвин". Он действовал на морских путях союзников в Индийском океане, в районе Австралии, Новой Зеландии и в Антарктике. Команде удалось установить безусловный рекорд, захватив у противника 200 000 тонн судоходного тоннажа. 8 мая 1941 года...
Фотоальбом с историческим очерком. — Пер. с англ. А. Колина. — М.: Эксмо, 2005. — 176 с.: ил. — (Энциклопедия военной истории). В книге, посвященной истории военно-морских сил III Рейха, содержится свыше 250 ранее не публиковавшихся фотографий, многие из которых лишь недавно удалось обнаружить в частных и государственных архивах Европы. Все фотографии снабжены исчерпывающими...
Машинописные тексты и автографы дневников и показаний немецких моряков в переводе на русский язык, подшитые в дело в Особом делопроизводстве Морского Генерального Штаба в 1917 году. — 56 с. Подлинники документов, электронные копии которых сшиты в единый файл и представлены здесь, отложились в Российском государственном архиве военно-морского флота: фонд 418 (Морской Генеральный...
Санкт Петербург: Цитадель, 1995. - 71 с. переиздание, ранее издано в 60-ых годах
Редактор Л.И. Амирханов
Аннотация автора: Для настоящей работы использованы в основном материалы иностранной печати во времена Второй мировой войны и после ее окончания. В книге освещены лишь основные эпизоды крейсерских операций, которые позволяют, однако, выявить общую авантюристичность...
Санкт-Петербург: Цитадель, 1996. - 98 с., переиздание, ранее издано в 1949г.
Редактор Л.И. Амирханов.
Для настоящей работы использованы в основном материалы иностранной печати во времена Второй мировой войны и после ее окончания. В книге освещены лишь основные эпизоды крейсерских операций, которые позволяют, однако, выявить общую авантюристичность германской теории крейсерской...
М.: Яуза, Эксмо, 2005. — 640 с. — ISBN: 5-699-10354-6. Военно-морской флот Германии до сих пор окутан мифами, и во многом его окружает героический ореол. Возможно, сказалось то, что ВМФ Германии оказался практически не замешанным в военных преступлениях, в отличие от сухопутных войск, которые на протяжении всей войны имели непосредственный контакт с гражданским населением на...
М.: Государственное военное издательство Наркомата обороны Союза ССР, 1937. — 415 с. —(Библиотека командира)
Германский морской архив, выпуская последовательную серию книг «Война на море 1914—1918 гг.» (Krieg zur See), посвященных описанию боевых действий германского флота на различных морских театрах, дополнил эти издания трудом инж. германского флота П. Кеппена о технике...
М.: Яуза, Эксмо, 2012. — 240 с. ISBN: 978-5-699-54760-9 Эти корабли были «козырной картой» Кригсмарине и «костью в горле» Владычицы морей. Эти тяжёлые крейсера идеально подходили на роль океанских рейдеров, угрожающих протяженным коммуникациям Британской Империи. Эти «бронированные пираты» стали «тевтонским ответом» на позор Первой Мировой и унизительные условия Версальского...
М.: Яуза, Эксмо, 2012. — 240 с. — ISBN 978-5-699-54760-9. Эти корабли были «козырной картой» Кригсмарине и «костью в горле» Владычицы морей. Эти тяжёлые крейсера идеально подходили на роль океанских рейдеров, угрожающих протяженным коммуникациям Британской Империи. Эти «бронированные пираты» стали «тевтонским ответом» на позор Первой Мировой и унизительные условия Версальского...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2004. — 320 с. — ISBN 5-9524-1445-1. Адмирал Теодор Кранке и офицер Иохан Бреннеке объективно и подробно повествуют об истории знаменитого немецкого крейсера, действовавшего по всех климатических поясах от Арктики до Антарктики. За сто шестьдесят один день похода карманный линкор прошел 46000 миль, захватил и отослал на родину 2 танкера, вывел из строя 19 судов....
Любительский перевод. — С оригинала: London. Endeavor Press Ltd. 2016. 181 c. Гитлеровский «Титаник» — самая смертоносная и самая тайная катастрофа в истории морских войн. Когда в январе 1945 года «Вильгельм Густлофф» был потоплен советской подводной лодкой, что унесло жизни почти 10 000 человек, это стало незавидным рекордом в учебниках истории как самая смертоносная морская...
Военно-морская энциклопедия. — М.: Коллекция; Яуза; Эксмо, 2009. — 432 с. — ISBN: 978-5-699-29857-0. После окончания Первой Мировой войны Версальский договор свел флот Германии до третьеразрядного статуса. Однако победители просчитались - практически сразу Германия приступила к планомерному возрождению своего флота. При этом жесткие рамки Версальского договора заставляли немцев...
Военно-морская энциклопедия. — М.: Коллекция; Яуза; Эксмо, 2009. — 432 с. — ISBN: 978-5-699-29857-0. После окончания Первой Мировой войны Версальский договор свел флот Германии до третьеразрядного статуса. Однако победители просчитались - практически сразу Германия приступила к планомерному возрождению своего флота. При этом жесткие рамки Версальского договора заставляли немцев...
М.: Эксмо, Яуза, 2012. — 400 с. — (Война на море. Уникальная энциклопедия). — ISBN: 978-5-699-56035-6. Самая полная энциклопедия Военно-Морских Сил Третьего Рейха. Уникальное издание, не имеющее равных. Фундаментальный труд ведущих историков флота. Исчерпывающие сведения о 999 боевых кораблях Кригсмарине и более 1000 вспомогательных, а также 1121 подводной лодке, дополненные...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2006. — 128 с. Автор ярко и увлекательно рассказывает о знаменитом морском сражении немецкого карманного линкора «Адмирал граф Шпее» с тремя английскими крейсерами – «Эксетером», «Аяксом» и «Ахиллесом» в заливе Ла-Плата в 1939 году. Читатель становится свидетелем драматических событий в Атлантике, возможно, повлиявших на начальный ход Второй мировой войны....
Военно-исторический журнал "Орел"; Мегакон, 1993. — 97 с. Альбом, который вы сейчас открыли, содержит сведения о всех немецких кораблях, составлявших в своё время основную ударную силу флота: линкоры, броненосные, линейные и тяжелые крейсера. К альбому прилагаются комплекты чертежей немецких кораблей: "Hilderbrandt", "Kurfurst Friedrich Wilhelm", "Deutschland", "Scharnhorst",...
Москва: ЧеРо, 1996. — 80 с. с иллюстрациями.
Настоящее издание представляет из себя выдержки из мемуаров Х.Г. Прагера, воевавшего в годы Второй мировой войны в составе экипажа тяжелого крейсера "Лютцов". Вниманию читателей предлагаются главы, посвященные действиям на Балтике 1944-1945 годах.
Альбом. — Л.: Военмориздат, 1942. — 38 с. Сборник силуэтов кораблей германского флота предназначен в помощь личному составу Краснознаменного Балтийского флота для изучения кораблей противника.
Военно-морское издательство НКВМФ СССР, 1939. — 60 с.
Данная книга капитана 1 ранга Е.Е. Шведе является пособием по изучению морских вооружений Германии по состоянию на 1939 год. Дается описание корабельного состава, морской авиации и береговой обороны. Даны тактико-технические описания кораблей различных классов. Рассмотрена организация управления и командования флотом.
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