At the tip of the confrontation. Linear cruisers of Germany in the hostilities of the First World War
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... It all started with the dreadnought. The huge British battleship, armed with five main caliber towers, was born in 1906 - thanks to the crazy genius of the English admiral Fisher. And he launched the competition of great powers for dominance at sea from scratch. With the birth of the dreadnought at once the entire World War Fleet is outdated - not physically, so morally. There was no battleship, equal to him in the density of the gun volley. And there was no cruiser capable of performing an intelligence or raiding task in the “zone of influence” of the latest technical monster. Admiral Fisher expressed the idea: to create a cruising equivalent for the latest battleship. The armament of the supercereiser should have like battleships, and speed - 5 more knots. As a result, in the summer of 1907, the first serial “cruisers-drums” came off the slipways of the British Marines. The potential opponent of Great Britain - Germany - answered this by creating a unique line of warships. Linear cruisers Gochzeeflotte ...
This book is dedicated to the events of the First World War and its participants - the German linear cruisers. The reader who is interested in naval history will find the tactical and technical characteristics of warships, the details of large battles, and quotes of genuine historical documents, and examples of both desperate heroism and phenomenal, meaningless cruelty of the cunning and strong enemy. The war at sea - “in smoke, blood and a torn gland” - will open as it is. The enemy possessed perfect weapons, was perfectly trained, and posed a terrible threat to the entire Entente - including, for our country. But still he was defeated ... what cost and how? Look for an answer on these pages
This book is dedicated to the events of the First World War and its participants - the German linear cruisers. The reader who is interested in naval history will find the tactical and technical characteristics of warships, the details of large battles, and quotes of genuine historical documents, and examples of both desperate heroism and phenomenal, meaningless cruelty of the cunning and strong enemy. The war at sea - “in smoke, blood and a torn gland” - will open as it is. The enemy possessed perfect weapons, was perfectly trained, and posed a terrible threat to the entire Entente - including, for our country. But still he was defeated ... what cost and how? Look for an answer on these pages
Author:
Author:Samchenko Svetlana Gennadievna, Yulin Boris Vitalievich
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:Military Books
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-4499-0000-5
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